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Did anyone ever ask Linus why #Git uses the filesystem directly for its key-value store instead of using something properly transactional that's crash-safe?
Berkeley DB already supported transactions at the time and was available under BSD & Sleepy Cat licenses, so there wasn't even a need to reinvent the wheel.
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