Here is what I found based on your lead ("real SCM", from 17 Apr 2005): > That was really what I always personally saw "git" as, just the plumbing beneath the

Here is what I found based on your lead ("real SCM", from 17 Apr 2005): > That was really what I always personally saw "git" as, just the plumbing beneath the surface. For example, something like arch, which is based on "patches and tar-balls" (I think darcs is similar in that respect), could use git as a _hell_ of a better "history of tar-balls". [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/Pine.LNX.4.58.0504170916080.7211@ppc970.osdl.org/ https://lore.kernel.org/git/Pine.LNX.4.58.0504170916080.7211...