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Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents

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Post by zdgeier »

Oak is a version control system I've been working on designed for agents (https://oak.space). It improves the speed and context your agents need when working on serious projects. With virtual mounts, agents locally and in the cloud no longer need a full copy of a repo to get working. You can work on many tasks in parallel without needing to download everything or fight worktrees. Version control shouldn't waste you or your agents time. It should be fast, creative and fun to make things with agents.

Oak is still early in development. There's no Windows build and missing plenty of features (no CI, no issues, no comments). We still use GitHub Actions for building Oak now, but we've been fully bootstrapped on Oak with no Git backup for several months: https://oak.space/oak/oak.

Blog post: https://oak.space/blog#git-is-forever

Docs: https://oak.space/docs

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Re: Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents

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Post by Pet_Ant »

What I want from a version system is to capture event in history not like changes as a files but as events that capture a process.

If I split a file in two I still want to be able to see blame correctly for the author of the function, not one file as freshly created and the other with a bunch of deletes. I wish commits could be folded into larger commits so that you can still capture the individual changes but also not see them by default when looking at the history of a file.

Just a more human centric perspective on change history where it captures the way we talk and think about changes.

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Post by sourdecor »

I have always wanted a version control system that was basically Emacs/Vim/Neovim's undo-tree[0] but persistent and social. Why do I have to manually talk to git? You are a computer, track every modification I make while editing and let me decide (or help me decide) on what a checkpoint is.

[0]: https://i.sstatic.net/4vbd9.png

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Post by stouset »

sourdecor wrote: post #4

I have always wanted a version control system that was basically Emacs/Vim/Neovim's undo-tree[0] but persistent and social. Why do I have to manually talk to git? You are a computer, track every modification I make while editing and let me decide (or help me decide) on what a checkpoint is. [0]: https://i.sstatic.net/4vbd9.png

Jujutsu might be what you’re looking for then.

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Post by sublinear »

Lots of self-promotion, but no concrete comparisons where this tool does a better job than git.

The only thing to go on is this single sentence: "With virtual mounts, agents locally and in the cloud no longer need a full copy of a repo to get working."

> For the first 100 users that subscribe to a paid plan I will send you a personalized e-ink display

I don't understand anyone who feels incentivized by this. Brogrammer 2.0 is weird.

Re: Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents

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Post by weinzierl »

"Git is forever"

Many things were forever until they suddenly died, but I think this is especially true for git.

I'm not saying this as a git hater, quite to the contrary. I think git is great. I also think git is an ill-fit for the majority of modern commercial software projects and there will be a breaking point where companies realize that and move on.

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Post by zdgeier »

IshKebab wrote: post #5

Does this try to solve the biggest problems with Git: submodules and LFS?

Planning on some monorepo features soon that should solve some submodule problems but haven't approached yet. I have some new ideas here. And yes, no separate LFS system!
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