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title: "Git"
description: "4 posts about Git, summarised, each linking to the original."
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# Git
> 4 posts about Git, summarised, each linking to the original.

## Articles

### [Redesigning source control at Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/post/redesigning-source-control-at-anthropic.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Author: Anthropic
- Published: Oct 13, 2026
- Type: Explainer

At Anthropic, Claude’s ability to iterate on code at high speed has caused git-based source control to become the bottleneck in their development workflow. To handle the growth from 2,500 to over 30,000 daily code merges, the team built Scion, an in-house version control system, fully migrating their monorepo from git in five months. Scion diverges from git by assuming clients are always online, shifting computation to the server, and using horizontally scalable data structures without any fully materialized copy of the repository. The system stores changes as entries in a write-ahead log, supports sparse and virtualized checkouts, and enables cheap, lock-free commits that scale with change size rather than repository size. Anthropic shares Scion’s design principles to help the broader ecosystem prepare for AI-driven scaling challenges, noting that similar pressure points will emerge for other organizations as AI coding tools become more common.


### [Lakebase and Agentic SDLC: Branching Databases for Coding Agents](https://yomu.fyi/post/lakebase-and-agentic-sdlc-branching-databases-for-coding-agents.md)
- Company: [Databricks](https://yomu.fyi/company/databricks.md)
- Author: Thibaut Gourdel
- Published: Oct 9, 2026
- Type: Problem & solution

Coding agents working in parallel on shared databases create schema conflicts, test interference, and data exposure risks. Lakebase Postgres solves this with database branching, which creates an isolated copy of an entire database in under a second using copy-on-write. Each agent gets its own database branch via a post-checkout Git hook tied to a worktree, and each pull request gets an ephemeral branch through CI tooling. Schema changes are tracked in code with migration tools such as Drizzle or Alembic and promoted to the parent branch during deployment, not by merging database branches. Idle branches scale to zero, so running many concurrent agents incurs no compute cost for unused branches.


### [Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development](https://yomu.fyi/post/building-git-infrastructure-for-agent-scale-development.md)
- Company: [Github](https://yomu.fyi/company/github.md)
- Author: Brian Celenza
- Published: Oct 6, 2026
- Type: Problem & solution

GitHub is rebuilding its Git infrastructure to handle agentic development, where agents push millions of commits daily and total activity doubled to 473.3 billion events per month. The current Spokes architecture couples durability with scale by storing full repository copies on local disks and using a quorum for writes, making writes slower as read replicas are added. Key challenges include commit turnaround latency per agent, write throughput up 4.9x year over year, merges contending on a single reference, and CI fan-out multiplying each push into thousands of reads. The new design separates storage from compute, using Azure Blob Storage for durability and lightweight workers for reads, shrinks the critical path by coordinating only reference updates, and moves maintenance off the serving path. Internal benchmarks show up to 35 times higher write throughput with independently scaling read capacity, while preserving existing workflows, branch protections, and audit controls.


### [We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare](https://yomu.fyi/post/we-want-you-to-build-the-next-git-platform-on-cloudflare.md)
- Company: [Cloudflare](https://yomu.fyi/company/cloudflare.md)
- Author: Zebulon Piasecki
- Published: Oct 1, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Cloudflare announced Artifacts, a programmable versioned filesystem speaking Git, is now in open beta for Workers Paid customers. Aimed at an era where AI agents write more code, Artifacts offers primitives for per-agent or per-task repositories, forking, versioned storage, and Git operations. New capabilities include deploying Artifacts repos to Workers via Workers Builds, managing repos from Workers with bindings, subscribing to push events for CI or review, setting US/EU data jurisdiction, and viewing metrics. Cloudflare is hosting a competition to build the next Git platform on Artifacts, requiring a 5-10 minute video and permissively licensed source code that reimagines agent coordination, review, and concurrent changes. Submissions close October 14, 2026; the first-place team wins $25,000 in Cloudflare credits and a trip to Cloudflare Connect, with three teams invited to San Francisco.