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The architecture for this kind of system can be really straightforward: a repository consists of a chronological list of Revisions, each of which consists of one or more Changes. Each Change is a transformation applied to a file. At least to start with we'll model every Change as completely replacing the previous state of the file since diffs and merging aren't necessary when we don't have collaboration features. We could store all this in many different ways but I figure SQLite is a reasonably scalable solution that seems to have bindings for Rust available. I'm not looking forward to manual management of database connections but this is part of what learning Rust is.