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Hi, I read and enjoyed your post at https://habr.com/en/post/465959/. I found it because I also had the idea to model family trees in Git. I think you might be interested in my implementation, https://github.com/olets/genealogit. The key parts are bin/create and bin/connect.

I can't leave a comment on your post (the site says "You can comment posts created not more than 30 days ago and also those posts, where at least one of your comments have been published. You cant comment the post if your previous comment has not been approved yet.") but I have a response to your note

It is not very clear how to complement history from the roots. For now you have to generate it from the beginning from the GEDCOM file. Probably this can be done with the help of rebase—you can try and tell in the comments.

I was stuck on the same limitation, and then found git replace --graft. That made it possible for me to process the "people" in any order. (You'll see that it does mean my relation calculator is unreliable, because Git rev-list gets messed up by replace objects.)

Practical benefit: this warm-up helps to better understand the structure of Git, its commands

Yes! I had a lot of fun figuring out how to use Git for this unusual purpose. Learned some commands that don't come up in my day-to-day, and had to read a lot about replace objects.