Comment by heathjohns

Funnily enough, Edsu and git's data stores are very similar in that they're both Merkle trees. It means that they both have similar benefits of trivial checkpointing, automatically deduplicating revision histories, etc.

So if you squint enough, Edsu is kind of an "APIized" version of your setup :) So in addition to text files, it can also be structured application data.