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mike_hearn
146 days ago
Was it cancelled? I thought MPS works that way.
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gritzko
146 days ago
I meant specifically revision control. JetBrains' school of thought is very much AST-centric, yes.
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mike_hearn
146 days ago
I think MPS stores projects as serialized ASTs and can do VCS merging.
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gritzko
146 days ago
Great. But MPS is not a revision control system.
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mike_hearn
146 days ago
Ah I see. You mean they were trying to build a custom VCS that had special support for AST merging. MPS uses regular git with custom merge drivers to do AST-level merging instead of textual merging, but that's a bit different
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