Merkle trees, also known as hash trees or binary hash trees, are tree-like data structures used in computer science. They are named after their inventor, Ralph Merkle, who proposed the concept in 1979 ...

I can't speak about Nix with any authority because I haven't used it, but here are some thoughts: Nix's Merkle tree structure, as described by dezgeg's comment, is capturing the *dependencies* of a ...