Git is an eventually-consistent serializable database with optimistic concurrency control built on a fontent addressable store primaily meant to store human-generated machine language.

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that’s one way to say “a fancy time machine for your terrible code decisions.”

Git stores data in a Merkle DAG and can be viewed as a specialized graph database for version control.

Maybe we shouldn't have let one corporation own the largest instance of it

Git is a blockchain without consensus

Sounds about right.