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Re:Elfshaker: Version control system fine-tuned for binaries by peterwaller-arm on Friday November 19, 2021 @08:55AM (#29277113)
Author here. We'd love this to be a thing, but this is young software, so we don't recommend relying on this as a single way of doing a backup for now. Bear in mind that our main use case is for things that you can reproduce in principle (builds of a commit history, see manyclangs).
Re:Elfshaker: Version control system fine-tuned for binaries by mxuribe on Friday November 19, 2021 @02:08PM (#29280995)
> our main use case is for things that you can reproduce in principle (builds of a commit history, see manyclangs)

I appreciate your response, and thanks very much for the clarification of use case; very helpful! Thanks also of course for building this!