> 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.
> 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.