alt Hacker NewsQ: What would prevent them from using git style version control under the hood? User doesn’t have to understand git, Claude can use it for its own purposes.
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nikkwong • yesterday at 8:24 PM
You can’t easily snapshot the current state of an OS and restore to that state like with git.
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samuelstros • yesterday at 10:14 PM
Git only works for text files. Everything else is a binary blob which, among other things, leads to merge conflicts, storage explosion, and slow git operations
Didn't actually check out the app, but some aspects of application state are hard to serialize, some operations are not reversible by the application. EG: sending an email. It doesn't seem naively trivial to accomplish this, for all apps.
So maybe on some apps, but "all" is a difficult thing.