🤖 AI Summary
本文探讨了Git作为P2P复制基础的概念模型及其在分布式算法和数据结构中的应用，展示了其对象模型的通用性和潜在的普遍适用性。
📝 Abstract
Git is most commonly known as a decentralized version control system. Underneath the surface, the design of Git exhibits an elegant object model and incremental replication protocols that have been used to build a variety of applications that go much beyond version control. In this paper, we survey those applications and show how application concepts have been mapped to Git concepts to show the latter's generality. We also show the connection between the Git commit history and the theory of distributed algorithms and convergent replicated data structures, suggesting that it approaches their essence. We finally compare to current peer-to-peer frameworks to establish the level of abstraction of the Git object model and peek at its potential universality. Throughout, we frame our discussion using the \textit{conceptual design} approach proposed by Daniel Jackson.