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Biganon
on Nov 22, 2022
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Extremely Linear Git History
This might be a stupid question, but does anyone call git history a blockchain, then? A centralized blockchain, without proof of work or proof of anything really of course, but still, it sounds like the basic blockchain idea is there
erik_seaberg
on Nov 23, 2022
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Git branches form a
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree
. Blockchain forks do also, but the goal is usually to ignore all but the longest.
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