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Posted by zdgeier 1 day ago

Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents(oak.space)
Oak is a version control system I've been working on designed for agents (https://oak.space). It improves the speed and context your agents need when working on serious projects. With virtual mounts, agents locally and in the cloud no longer need a full copy of a repo to get working. You can work on many tasks in parallel without needing to download everything or fight worktrees. Version control shouldn't waste you or your agents time. It should be fast, creative and fun to make things with agents.

Oak is still early in development. There's no Windows build and missing plenty of features (no CI, no issues, no comments). We still use GitHub Actions for building Oak now, but we've been fully bootstrapped on Oak with no Git backup for several months: https://oak.space/oak/oak.

Blog post: https://oak.space/blog#git-is-forever

Docs: https://oak.space/docs

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jazz9k 1 day ago|
It's kind of like replacing Wordpress. Sure, you can make a better alternative. But replacing an entrenched player that has been there for at least a decade will be almost impossible.
dgellow 1 day ago|
you don't need to replace, you just need to find your niche, then expand from there
nixosbestos 1 day ago||
Yeah, I'll just wait for jj to get more virtualized FS features, and be very, very happy with that.
zdgeier 1 day ago|
I love jj! Martin is really awesome and love his work. I know they're using a VFS backing inside Google for their monorepo, wonder if we'll get some of those cool features on the outside.
steveklabnik 1 day ago||
There is a Google intern project to work on an open source vfs thing, we'll see how it goes.
insane_dreamer 1 day ago||
anything that improves on git's branches vs worktrees mess is a GoodThing, imo
russellthehippo 1 day ago||
"Welcome to the agentic substrate"

YAAS (yet another agentic substrate)

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