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> Gitless is an experiment to see what happens if you put a simple veneer on an app that changes the underlying concepts. ... changes them how exactly? A big p

> Gitless is an experiment to see what happens if you put a simple veneer on an app that changes the underlying concepts. ... changes them how exactly? A big part of what I like about Git is that its underlying concepts are simple and clear and feel like the right building blocks for version control. So I'm curious to know how they believe they can improve on that.

JohnKacz 10y ago
It's not a quick answer but they cover this in the Gitless vs. Git section.[0] One main difference seems to be with branching "The main thing to understand is that in Gitless a branch is a completely independent line of development." [0] http://gitless.com/#vs http://gitless.com/#vs
- arielb1 10y ago
  By that, AFAICT they mean "a branch, in addition to being a commit pointer, contains all the files in the working directory".
  - __david__ 10y ago
    And also the current merge state (though I'm not sure why I'd ever want to context switch away from a merge conflict resolution).