I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare others the pain

Re:I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare other... by sunshowers on Thursday March 06, 2025 @02:02AM (#43277267)

FYI you two are talking past each other. Snapshots and diffs are isomorphic to each other.

What I believe the GP is referring to is commutativity of patches. Personally, as someone with many years of source control experience, I think commutativity is very far down the list of what I think needs fixing.

One of the main jobs of source control is to be able to answer discovery requests when lawyers come knocking. You really need an effectively immutable history of published work for this.

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Re:I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare other... by adastra22 on Thursday March 06, 2025 @11:51PM (#43287444)

It depends on what you do with version control. I maintain a long-lived fork of an actively developed upstream project. I spend a ridiculous and unnecessary amount of time in my depressingly short life rebasing changes for every release. 98% of this work would be eliminated if we had patch commutativity.

Not everyone is affected by this. I recognize that my use case isn't the median case. But it is a massive and entirely unnecessary burden.

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