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<h3>1.1 Conflict-Free Replicated Datatypes</h3>

<p>The "bag of artifacts" data model used by Fossil
Fossil is apparently an implementation of a particular 
Fossil is apparently an implementation of a particular
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_type|Conflict-Free Replicated
Datatype (CRDT)]
called a "G-Set" or "Grow-only Set".
The academic literature on CRDTs only began to appear in about 2011, and
Fossil predates that research by at least 4 years.  But it is nice to know
that theorists have now proven that the underlying data model of Fossil can
provide strongly-consistent replicas using only peer-to-peer communication