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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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Ainaguade 16 hours ago|
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noelwelsh 1 day ago||
A few comments:

* The core idea sounds interesting. Make it the first paragraph, not paragraph seven.

* Spend more words describing what makes Oak different.

* "I built a version control system in my free-time called Jam". You probably didn't name your free time. "I built a version control system, called Jam, in my free time."

philipwhiuk 1 day ago|
"I built a version control system, in my free-time, called Jam" is fine.
AdamN 1 day ago|||
Just "I built a version control system called Jam". The free-time thing is good for a history page but the homepage needs to tell the important part (you've got history and expertise in this subject) and then move onto what the vision is for Oak and what kind of help you need.
stonogo 1 day ago|||
It's also fine without the commas, because nobody was confused by that structure.
pepa65 1 day ago||
Without comma's it might require a re-parse.
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