Interestingly I sort of went in the other direction at one point -- converting what was obviously a graph (build pipelines) into a from-to / credit-debit representation. On reflection it's just an edge list.

My main problem with adapting the representation was in the incommensurability of different kinds of asset moving through the pipeline. How does one credit source code and debit a blob store? I thought about learning more about multi-currency accounting as a source for ideas but never followed it up.

That effort inspired my thinking about a "Universal Asset Graph" for software[0] -- keeping track of not just containment but also movement and transformation of software. It's a partial but not complete inspiration for GUAC, which aims to capture software part relations for easy querying.

[0] https://theoryof.predictable.software/articles/some-requirem...

[1] https://guac.sh