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The point of the article is not an analogy. Git is based on snapshots. Abs diffs are computed from snapshots as needed.

The snapshots are also de-duplicated and compressed, but that is not important.

The article is a good one. And if you spend the time to understand git it gets easier to use.




Internal implementations and external interfaces are not necessarily the same thing. When reading a single-threaded application's code, it is helpful to read it as a series of instructions, executing serially. In reality, both the compiler and your CPU are constantly reordering instructions, and executing them in parallel/out-of-order. However, this is all done while still preserving the illusion of serial-execution. Taking a beginner programmer down this rabbit-hole of implementation details, is going to be more harmful than helpful.

Thank you for the suggestion, but I already find git easy to use. And thinking of commits as diffs that can be cherry-picked, rebased and reordered, is something that helps me greatly in understanding it.




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