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Possibly dumb idea but has anyone ever tried to make an abstract syntax tree aware version control system?

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Pros: have more powerful tools to visualize the evolution of the program Cons: can't support all languages. Projects want to put some files in VC that aren't code e.g. Readmes.

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What I'm picturing is your VC instead of tracking the state of files tracks the state of the AST and diffs are tree modifications not line diffs.

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One con is I guess you can't comment anymore unless you're preserving slightly more info than the AST

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