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I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Snapshots and diffs are different views of the same thing. You need both. It doesn't really matter which one is more na

I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Snapshots and diffs are different views of the same thing. You need both. It doesn't really matter which one is more natural or primitive in the implementation. When I git push, I upload my commits (i.e. snapshots). And when I git cherry-pick, I apply a diff. Both views are needed, I don't see why it's a leak.

pmeunier 6y ago
> Snapshots and diffs are different views of the same thing. Not completely: think of conflict resolutions for example. In patch-based systems such as Darcs and Pijul, you don't need a "rerere" command to handle that special case. And I'm sure you'll agree that conflicts is the one critical situation where we need the best possible tool. > When I git push, I upload my commits (i.e. snapshots). And when I git cherry-pick, I apply a diff That's not how Git does it. Instead, Git runs 3-way merge, which doesn't do what you expect, see https://pijul.org/manual/why_pijul.html https://pijul.org/manual/why_pijul.html.