[igouy]

> Version control is tricky with image-based systems

Back in the day:

"ENVY/Manager augments this model by providing configuration management and version control facilities. All code is stored in a central database rather than in files associated with a particular image. Developers are continuously connected to this database; therefore changes are immediately visible to all developers."

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Develope...

These days:

"Package files are simple text files, encoded for latin alphabet (ISO 8859-15) and handled without problems by GitHub. Cuis-Smalltalk uses the LF (ascii code 10) newline convention, as preferred in GitHub. This allows Git/GitHub to diff versions, and merge branches."

https://drcuis.github.io/TheCuisBook/Daily-Workflow.html

[TeMPOraL]

The "Back in the day" sounds better as a pattern in general.