alt Hacker NewsThe versioned filesystem is exactly what's missing when agents hallucinate and go off the rails. How fast are the rollbacks if an agent completely messes up the directory state?
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gitaarik • today at 4:04 AM
Wasn't git invented for these kinds of things?
very very fast: proportional to the count of objects modified, but not their size. Every commit represents a snapshot - an immutable listing of objects that represents the repository. reverting is essentially applying the inverse of the diff introduced by the reverted commit.
This is metadata only as the objects themselves are immutable.