alt Hacker NewsNo we don't.
And you can build near any VCS of your dream while still using Git as storage backend, as it is database of a linked snapshots + metadata. Bonus benefit: it will work with existing tooling
The whole article is "I don't know how git works, let's make something from scratch"
A syntax tree node does not fit into a git object. Too many children. This doesn't mean we shouldn't keep everything that's great about git in a next-gen solution, but it does mean that we'll have to build some new tools to experiment with features like semantic patching and merging.
Also I checked the author out and can confirm that they know how git works in detail.