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by FullyFunctional 2642 days ago
More to the point, they are DAGs. Git objects cannot form a loop, thus they are acyclic. </pedantic>
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That's absolutely correct. And your emphasis on this is on point, since DAG are relatively easy to implement in Rust: You just need to use ref-counting (instead of plain `Box` for a Tree) whereas general purpose graphs are harder to implement (and can lead to run-time bugs if node deletions aren't managed properly).