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Comment by gritzko

4 hours ago

I meant specifically revision control. JetBrains' school of thought is very much AST-centric, yes.

I think MPS stores projects as serialized ASTs and can do VCS merging.

  • Great. But MPS is not a revision control system.

    • Ah I see. You mean they were trying to build a custom VCS that had special support for AST merging. MPS uses regular git with custom merge drivers to do AST-level merging instead of textual merging, but that's a bit different