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Re:I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare other... by fragmede on Sunday March 02, 2025 @08:51PM (#43237463)
If the existence of a book speaks volumes about how bad something is or is not, I have some bad news for you about what's inside libraries. What beloved subject doesn't have a plethora of books written about it?
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Re:I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare other... by fsloth on Monday March 03, 2025 @01:51AM (#43239006)
Exactly. VCS is part of an industrial process. It's not supposed to be implemented with a thin wrapper to a database whose node structure you need to rummage through.

The software analogue would be that in order to use the platform default List and Dictionary data structures you would need to manually manage the links between the data nodes.

Or to use text editor you would occasionally tweak the rope datastructure or equivalent. Etc.

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