Comment by aboodman

Yes, we credited bup in various places, such as the design overview:

https://github.com/attic-labs/noms/blob/master/doc/intro.md

We were also heavily influenced by camlistore (which I hacked on for awhile), irmin, ipfs, and others who have done a lot of interesting work in this space.

We do use rolling checksums, but I think we have done some novel work here: https://github.com/attic-labs/noms/blob/master/doc/intro.md#...