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Great writeup! It's always fun to learn the details of the tools we use daily. For others, I highly recommend Git from the Bottom Up[1]. It is a very well-written piece on internal data structures and does a great job of demystifying the opaque git commands that most beginners blindly follow. Best thing you'll learn in 20ish minutes. 1. https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/
Does this git include empty folder? I always annoy that it's not track empty folder.
Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.02s
Running `target/debug/tvc decompress f854e0b307caf47dee5c09c34641c41b8d5135461fcb26096af030f80d23b0e5`=== subcommand === decompress ------------------ tree ./src/empty-folder e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855 blob ./src/main.rs fdc4ccaa3a6dcc0d5451f8e5ca8aeac0f5a6566fe32e76125d627af4edf2db97
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Only need one, they're not thinking critically about the media they consume during training.
Here's a sad prediction: over the coming few years, AIs will get significantly better at critical evaluation of sources, while humans will get even worse at it.
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Random aside about training data: One of the funniest things I've started to notice from Gemini in particular is that in random situations, it talks with english with an agreeable affect that I can only describe as.. Indian? I've never noticed such a thing leak through before. There must be a ton of people in India who are generating new datasets for training.
There was a really great article or blog post published in the last few months about the author's very personal experience whose gist was "People complain that I sound/write like an LLM, but it's actually the inverse because I grew up in X where people are taught formal English to sound educated/western, and those areas are now heavily used for LLM training." I wish I could find it again, if someone else knows the li…
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I like it but the problem is everyone else already knows git and everything integrates with git. It is very easy to self host. Not having staging is awkward at first but works well once you get used to it. I prefer it for personal projects. In think its better for small teams if people are willing to adjust but have not had enough opportunities to try it.
Is it possible to commit individual files, or specific lines, without a staging area? I guess this might be against Fossil's ethos, and you're supposed to just commit everything every time?
I think the ethos is to discourage it.
It does not seem to be possible to commit just specific lines.
>The hardest part about this project was actually just parsing. How about using sqlite for this? Then you wouldn't need to parse anything, just read/update tables. Fast indexing out of the box, too.
that would be what https://fossil-scm.org/ is
It's basically plaintext. Even deltas are plaintext for text files.
Reason: "The global state of a fossil repository is kept simple so that it can endure in useful form for decades or centuries. A fossil repository is intended to be readable, searchable, and extensible by people not yet born."
Notable differences: E2E encryption, parallel imports (Got will light up all your cores), and a data structure that supports large files and directories.
Nice work! On a complete tangent, Git is the only SCM known to me that supports recursive merge strategy [1] (instead of the regular 3-way merge), which essentially always remembers resolved conflicts without you needing to do anything. This is a very underrated feature of Git and somehow people still manage to choose rebase over it. If you ever get to implementing merges, please make sure you have a mechanism for re…
I remember in a previous job having to enable git rerere, otherwise it wouldn't remember previously resolved conflicts. https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Rerere
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That's very interesting. Any examples you can share which has those agreeable effects?
I'm going to do a cursory look through my antigrav history, i want to find it too. I remember it's primarily in the exclamations of agreement/revelation, and one time expressing concern which I remember were slightly off natural for an american english speaker.