Why Git needs help: moving from files to systems for source control
AIThe author argues that Git's file-centric, line-diff model suits human collaboration but not autonomous coding agents, which reason over syntax trees and call graphs. The article proposes server-hosted, graph-aware architectures using Tree-sitter ASTs and code property graphs, plus versioning agent reasoning traces alongside commits.
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