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Git is a filesystem ( https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects ).

> Git is a content-addressable filesystem. Great. What does that mean? It means that at the core of Git is a simple key-value data store. What this means is that you can insert any kind of content into a Git repository, for which Git will hand you back a unique key you can use later to retrieve that content.

That's a great thing for matching the mindset of someone writing operating system software.

Fossil is on top of a relational database... which is also a great thing for matching the mindset of someone writing a relational database.



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