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   iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 15-May-2023 12:04:22 JST iced depresso
   one thing i worry about pijul is that its data structures are highly advanced. the logic for working with everything is similarly highly mathematical.
   
   git pack files are not actually so special. the indices are just a list of blocks to reconstitute under what name and the pack files are blobs (hehe blob :gummydab:) you index in to. simple.
   
   the sccs weave is freaky but apparently its not actually that complicated its just awkwardly explained. make up a set of IDs that are "in", walk each line of the file and apply lines that are marked "in."
   
   i worry slightly about having incredibly advanced formats for things like this :blobcatterrified: pijul has a whole bespoke key/value store and complex commutation and resolving logic which is significantly more complicated than what a changeset amounts to.
   
   i guess in a way it doesn't matter. this is finnicky permaculture concerns and in a mercenary context ain't nobody got time to make sure the history of projects are in some beautiful format with an indefinite lifespan :blobcatbean:
   
   :blobcatphoto: quinn why don't you bother starting the blog back up
   :blobcatfrowning: i always feel like a blog post requires proper writing structure and citations and shit
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     masinter (masinter@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 15-May-2023 12:04:20 JST masinter

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     • screwlisp

     @screwtape @icedquinn

     yes we've put in a lot of work into integrating with git and GitHub.
     (FILESLOAD GITFNS).
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYWFTiai_tA&t=12s 26:56

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     screwlisp (screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 15-May-2023 12:04:21 JST screwlisp

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     @icedquinn have you had a look at source file versioning of programs (/ functions / persisted files) in #interlisp ?

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     masinter (masinter@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 15-May-2023 12:53:21 JST masinter

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     • screwlisp

     @icedquinn @screwtape
     we got pretty deep into this
     https://github.com/orgs/Interlisp/discussions/637
     There was another post I can't find just now by John Cowan talking about changing the granularity of what is managed to be not a 'file' but a set of definers.... take the idea of a file package ..... need higher bandwidth to discuss.

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 15-May-2023 12:53:22 JST iced depresso

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     • screwlisp
     • masinter
     @masinter @screwtape i'm not familiar with the work but have you had the same problems everyone else complaints about?
     
     git having a deficient concept of repositories comes up quite a bit. namely, it has no understanding of branches, renames, removes, etc.
     screwlisp repeated this.