I have been following Pijul loosely for a while, and I would strongly agree that it could do with some information on some of the possible practical advantages of the approach. I do have some Pijul repositories around, but have not used it with the necessary further to explain any of the advantages, however, one possible advantage to note is that the equivalent of cherry-picking as used in GIT et. al, which always generates a new commit hash per cherry-pick for the same content should not happen in the Pigul world as I understand it. i.e. A specific commit when "cherry-picked" should have identical hashes, which has several implications.
- Having not actually tested this in my own repos, take my insight with the appropriate grain of salt.
- Having not actually tested this in my own repos, take my insight with the appropriate grain of salt.