Oak

Version control and storage layer.

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Console’s review

· Reviewed by David Mytton

What we like

Unit of work is a branch which is cloned instantly using content-addressed storage - never push to main directly. Changes based around a branch description rather than commit messages. Create a working tree from a remote repo without requiring a full clone. Spaces combine repos for large cross-repo tasks. Import/export from git.

Tradeoffs

Only supports macOS (Apple Silicon) and Linux (x86) due to underlying filesystem requirements for content addressable storage.

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