Yes, that is what I was getting at. The cheat is that none of that information is available in the snapshots. And we use the snapshot, as that is what all of t

Yes, that is what I was getting at. The cheat is that none of that information is available in the snapshots. And we use the snapshot, as that is what all of the other tooling creates and works with. The fact that most people using git don't refer to the snapshots as a thing is pretty much how invisible that is to all of our tooling. It isn't a special thing, it is the thing. If you are pushing for a state based crdt that can be reconstructed from snapshots, then you aren't needing to change get as a whole, but only the diffing tool? If you want all diffs to be based on the edits users did, you aren't wanting to change get, as much as all of the tooling users use. No?