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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Who we?

I think of them as snapshots organized in a directed acyclic graph (DAG).

Diff is only a viewing option, or an optional compression implementation detail in packed history files.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Diff is only a viewing option

It isn't. Git uses 3-way diff/merge algorithm quite liberally behind the scenes.