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1. mike_h+(OP)
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2026-01-20 10:12:14
Was it cancelled? I thought MPS works that way.
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2. gritzk+t8
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2026-01-20 11:24:14
>>mike_h+(OP)
I meant specifically revision control. JetBrains' school of thought is very much AST-centric, yes.
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3. mike_h+Jm
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2026-01-20 13:22:57
>>gritzk+t8
I think MPS stores projects as serialized ASTs and can do VCS merging.
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2026-01-20 14:16:57
>>mike_h+Jm
Great. But MPS is not a revision control system.
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2026-01-20 14:23:47
>>gritzk+uu
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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