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> The "bag of artifacts" data model used by Fossil is apparently an implementation of a particular Conflict-Free Replicated Datatype (CRDT) called a "G-Set" or "Grow-only Set".

Isn’t this just by virtue of content addressing objects? In that sense Git’s odb is also a G-set.

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If you look at the definition of CRDTS, it seems trivial that all distributed scms must satisfy CRDT properties. Some observations are trivial once you think about it, but worth saying to connect to different audiences with different interests or backgrounds. I wouldn't be surprised if they added this because they got the question many times. The rest of the paragraph makes clear that they did not develop fossil in the context of CRDTs, and nothing in the rest of the document depends on this observation.

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