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Yes I agree. I still think its wrong to call Git a CRDT because git is a lot more than its content-addressable system. All that other stuff on top - you know, the parts you use to track and merge branches? That stuff isn't a CRDT.

Maybe its like asking if Wikipedia is a relational database. I assume wikipedia is implemented on top of a relational database. But the resulting wikipedia website? No, not a relational database.



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