Re:Faster CRDTs (2021)
by Groxx on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @12:00AM
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>Git could be "conflict-free" with a simple `rand(ours, theirs)`.
This would still be order dependent, and different replicas would not converge.
Git is unambiguously not a CRDT, and adding extra rules on top of git to try to turn it into one doesn't make git one, even if you succeed. You can do that with a pencil and paper, but that doesn't make paper a CRDT.
This would still be order dependent, and different replicas would not converge.
Git is unambiguously not a CRDT, and adding extra rules on top of git to try to turn it into one doesn't make git one, even if you succeed. You can do that with a pencil and paper, but that doesn't make paper a CRDT.