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		sounds on Oct 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The State of the Art is Terrible What about the progress being made by file systems? btrfs, for example, includes some amazing abilities. And what about git's content addressing? Progress comes in fits and starts, and not where we expect it.

pgeorgi on Oct 4, 2011 [–]

"git's content addressing" existed earlier than git: hg and monotone do it.

And long before those, plan9's venti.

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