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I haven't made up my own mind, and certainly intend to try this out.

But I want to point out that your first paragraph offers no answer to the question, same as the title here doesn't. And I don't say that to be snarky -- what you list are implementation details, not an answer to the question. As a developer I don't care what kind of theory my program is built on I just want to know how it will save me time and give me new functionality. (In my spare time I can think the math is cool and be content with that).

(Even more specifically -- git is a DVCS already, it's just most people seem to use it with a central server like GitHub, so personally I also didn't understand what the page meant when calling that one of pijul's advantages).




In principle I do care about the fundamental model being correct - that can often bubble up to fewer (or cleaner) edge cases. Without help though, or many hours of usage I can't mentally map that model to what it is actually going to be like to use.




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