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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: vcs</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/vcs.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2026-03-22T18:57:32+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Merge State Visualizer</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/22/manyana/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2026-03-22T18:57:32+00:00</published><updated>2026-03-22T18:57:32+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/22/manyana/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tool:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/manyana"&gt;Merge State Visualizer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
    &lt;p&gt;Bram Cohen wrote about his &lt;a href="https://bramcohen.com/p/manyana"&gt;coherent vision for the future of version control&lt;/a&gt; using CRDTs, illustrated by &lt;a href="https://github.com/bramcohen/manyana/blob/main/manyana.py"&gt;470 lines of Python&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I fed that Python (minus comments) into Claude and asked for &lt;a href="https://claude.ai/share/8ce777cd-c7c3-4656-a45e-acbf66bf994b"&gt;an explanation&lt;/a&gt;, then had it use Pyodide to build me an interactive UI for seeing how the algorithms work.&lt;/p&gt;
    
        &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/vcs"&gt;vcs&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pyodide"&gt;pyodide&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bram-cohen"&gt;bram-cohen&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/crdt"&gt;crdt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
    

</summary><category term="vcs"/><category term="pyodide"/><category term="bram-cohen"/><category term="crdt"/></entry><entry><title>Subversion WebDAV Autoversioning</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Nov/23/autoversioning/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-11-23T23:50:16+00:00</published><updated>2007-11-23T23:50:16+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Nov/23/autoversioning/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.2/svn.webdav.autoversioning.html"&gt;Subversion WebDAV Autoversioning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Set up a WebDAV share that automatically versions any file saved to it. I had no idea Subversion could do this out of the box.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/autoversioning"&gt;autoversioning&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/subversion"&gt;subversion&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/svn"&gt;svn&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/vcs"&gt;vcs&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/version-control"&gt;version-control&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/webdav"&gt;webdav&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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