Actually, it’s not the backend which is line oriented, it’s the front end. The b...

arjvik on Dec 10, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version cont...

Actually, it’s not the backend which is line oriented, it’s the front end. The backend doesn’t dissect files, it stores the entire new file when even one line is changed and relies on object compression to find the similarity in the rest.