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Re:We have reached OpenBSD of Theseus by nmz on Saturday August 24, 2024 @01:02PM (#41339594)
Internals are nice, but are also not and should not be necessary to know, I don't know how a FS is writing a file, and yet I can store files fine.
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Re:We have reached OpenBSD of Theseus by oasisaimlessly on Saturday August 24, 2024 @01:29PM (#41339791)
"Internals" is a bit of a loaded word; internals are meant to stay inside, eh? Every cellular organism would agree on this point.

A better term might be git's "data model".

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Re:We have reached OpenBSD of Theseus by nmz on Sunday August 25, 2024 @12:13PM (#41348437)
I'm speaking more generally than git here, part of being any type of inventor is to simplify for the user and make it intuitive, that way if the internals change, the abstraction/external look the same.
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