Software Is Made Between Commits

3 hours ago

The author dislikes pull requests, finding them an ineffective collaboration tool for the Zed team.
Zed was founded in 2021 to move beyond commit constraints and integrate collaboration directly into the editor.
DeltaDB, a new version control system, records every operation as fine-grained deltas instead of snapshots.
It allows versioning worktrees and conversations together, keeping code and discussions synchronized.
DeltaDB enables referencing code at any point in its evolution and tracing conversations that produced it.
Agents can access context and prior conversations about the code they are working on.
The goal is to make agent conversations the primary collaboration method, eliminating the need for commits.
DeltaDB aims to reduce collaboration ceremony by integrating discussions directly with code.

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