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47: Sapling - A scalable, user-friendly source control system

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The Pattern of Download Less Data in Git

Git has built some really fancy data structures that I'm quite proud of. We have a data structure called the segmented change log. This is basically it's a way of kind of describing the shape of your commit history. And this allows us to do things like when you run smart log, and you know, hundreds of milliseconds, we can show the shape of where are your local commits in relation to everyone else's commits.

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