thanks so much for the note! i really appreciate it. i built this precisely for folks like yourself with this specific pain, thanks again!

oh wow! i really thought i was being too clever but i shouldve assumed nothing new under the sun. well im taking name suggestions now!

primarily, got is structural VCS intended for concurrent edits of the same file.

it does this via gotreesitter and gts-suite abstractions that enable it to: - have entity-aware diffs - not line by line but function by function - structural blame - attribution resolution for the lifetime of the entity - semver from structure - it can recommend bumps because it knows what is breaking change vs minor vs patch - entity history - because entities are tracked independently, file renames or moves dont affect the entity's history

when gotreesitter cant parse a language, the 3way text merge happens as a fallback. what the structural merge enables is no conflicts unless same entity has conflicting changes

    like "    this"

it is interoperable with git. we like git when its good but attempted to ease the pains in UX somewhat. you can take advantage of got locally but still push it to git remote forges jsut the same. when you pull stuff in this way, got will load the entity history into the git repo ensuring that you can still do got stuff locally (inspect entity histories, etc)

yeah the tests live with the implementation code always (Go thing) and the repo root thing is like a preference, main is an acceptable package to put stuff in (Go thing), i see this a lot with smaller projects or library type projects

206 binary blobs = 15MB, so not crazy but i built for this use case where you can declare the registry of languages you want to load and not have to own all the grammar binaries by default

yes basically about 70% of the engineering effort was spent porting the external scanners and ensuring parity with original (C) tree-sitter

well how did it do?

How is OP using Claude relevant?

I work on a similar project, except merge is CRDT. On Feb 22 there was a server break-in (I did not keep sources on the client, server login was YubiKey only, but that is not 100% guarantee). I reported break-in to my Telegram channel that day.

My design docs https://replicated.wiki/blog/partII.html

I used tree-sitter for coarse AST. Some key parts were missing from the server as well, because I expected problems (had lots of adventures in East Asia, evil maids, various other incidents on a regular basis).