I agree with this, I just don't think I agree with the Beagle approach (CRDT on AST as the source of truth) vs. the Git method (bytewise files as the source of

I agree with this, I just don't think I agree with the Beagle approach (CRDT on AST as the source of truth) vs. the Git method (bytewise files as the source of truth) with something alongside. Like, I think it's way easier to add a parallel construction to Git (via a formal method or even a magic file) which includes the CRDT for the AST than it is to make that the base unit of truth. It still lets you answer and interact at the higher level with "oh, this commit changed $SYM1 to $SYM2" without also destroying byte-level file information that someone finds important, and without changing the main abstraction from the human-space to the computer-space.