Comment by PunchyHamster
13 hours ago
Git has format dedicated for storing snapshots of trees and diffing them, fossil just uses SQLite and few tricks to keep size small
13 hours ago
Git has format dedicated for storing snapshots of trees and diffing them, fossil just uses SQLite and few tricks to keep size small
Of tree, or of sub-DAG?
"Just use SQLite" feels like missing the forest for the tree (the pun being coincidence here). That is, certainly any database out there already use all kinds of very efficient structures to walk graphs under the wood.
Maybe Git has a more bespoke approach to its specific goal of source code as main topic to deal with, and finner layer of abstractions. Which could also explain the clumsy leaky interface it presents.