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Theoretically it might work, but I don't think I am too fond of the idea. I used git pull to completely waste my source and it would have been nice for git to have more intelligence here, but in the end I think some of its success lies in its simplicity.

SVN isn't too bad and not too much of a difference to git if you use a central repository anyway. The main neat thing was to just have one hidden folder, not in every subdirectory.

Git would also need the ability to transform from AST to source for every language. A bit unrealistic and there is no benefit to it. Could also do that with Assemblies and some meta info for the decompiler.




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