Git is ignorant by design

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> Instead, the source of confusion lies in the way git works.

No, the source of confusion lies in the way diff algorithm works. And it works like this for thirty years, and it works this way in virtually all the other version control systems.

It is correct that no VCS that operates on plain text can do better than Git, as is in fact pointed out in the article.

The point is rather to [1] make it explicit that the assumption that everything is text is in fact a choice and [2] show some examples of consequences of this choice.

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