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You're still imagining a centralized solution with a single source of truth and less power than Git. Git history is a directed acyclic graph, not a single linear timeline.



"less power" definitely depends on what you value when comparing Git against real databases, e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/984707/what-are-the-file...

There is at least one database that exists which does support a Git-like DAG for transaction-time temporality: https://terminusdb.com/

It should also be pointed out that "temporal databases" usually offer a lot more besides a linear transaction-time history. Although I've not seen anything that offers a DAG for valid-time histories yet :)




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