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CPurposes, Concepts, Misfits, and a Redesign of GitSantiago Perez De Rosso Daniel Jackson
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence LabMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA{sperezde, dnj}@csail.mit.eduAbstract
Git is a widely used version control system that is powerful
but complicated. Its complexity may not be an inevitable
consequence of its power but rather evidence
