[minot]

> "Most of the world" has a hard time understanding hierarchical structure like files and directories.

That is an excellent point that I think deserves expanding.

I submit that files and directories ARE difficult concepts. Pretty much everything is difficult when you look into it enough.

I remember of the time they pointed the Hubble Telescope into a seemingly empty patch in the sky and with long exposure or something, we saw tens of thousands of galaxies from billions of years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Ultra-Deep_Field

Back to the subject at hand, I tried installing gentoo one time and it prompted me for something. I only vaguely remember the word "inode". Here is the first paragraph from the wikipedia from the article on inode:

The inode (index node) is a data structure in a Unix-style file system that describes a file-system object such as a file or a directory. Each inode stores the attributes and disk block locations of the object's data.[1] File-system object attributes may include metadata (times of last change,[2] access, modification), as well as owner and permission data.[3] Directories are lists of names assigned to inodes. A directory contains an entry for itself, its parent, and each of its children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inode

Files and directories may be an easy concept to understand if you have been exposed to them long enough (not sure how long is long enough) BECAUSE we have a good abstraction. I never had to learn what inodes are or how a filesystem works to use a computer. Can we accomplish something similar with version control?