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Git is forever. I'm building Oak anyways
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- May 28, 2026 3 min read Zach Geier Blog post #1
- Git is extremely good at what it was built for: humans making deliberate changes, reviewing patches, and preserving a distributed history that can survive decades.
- But even though git is wonderful at many things, I started to wonder years ago if there could be something better.
May 28, 2026 3 min read Zach Geier Blog post #1
Git is extremely good at what it was built for: humans making deliberate changes, reviewing patches, and preserving a distributed history that can survive decades. It was purpose-built for Linux kernel development and I don t believe anyone can make a better tool for that. Git is forever.
But even though git is wonderful at many things, I started to wonder years ago if there could be something better. Almost everyone has their own problems with version control. What would a version control system look like if we created it from scratch today?
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