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Re:Anu: A sound, distributed version control systema by tomjakubowski on Thursday November 05, 2020 @04:51PM (#25002415)
git fundamentally tracks and stores snapshots, not changes. I believe mentioning this is meant to emphasize a difference between Anu (or Pijul) and git.
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Re:Anu: A sound, distributed version control systema by ben509 on Thursday November 05, 2020 @05:42PM (#25002901)
This is correct. The common misunderstanding is due to the fact that gits pack files are delta compressed, but that's a implementation detail.
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