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> You can definitely use git as a backend for building such a system, but some extra tooling is necessary

Is it? There’s the stash for storing patches, the index for storing good hunks, branching for trying out different experiments. You can even use worktree if you want separate working directory especially when there will be changes in the untracked files.

Git has a lot of tooling for dealing with changes, directly or at the meta layer.



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