Conceptually git thinks about snapshots of trees. The pack format uses deltas but that's a mostly hidden detail. The pack format didn't exist for the first mo

Conceptually git thinks about snapshots of trees. The pack format uses deltas but that's a mostly hidden detail. The pack format didn't exist for the first months of git's existence. I haven't bothered to read the blog post (Joel strikes me as someone with a huge ego and without any exceptional insights), but doesn't the above fact mostly refute his thesis? I like git and hg but they are just tools. You could do the same development model with patches.