Julia Evans on Nostr: i think there's something people find confusing about commits in git but I haven't ...

i think there's something people find confusing about commits in git but I haven't worked out what it is yet

it feels related to the fact that commits in git are used in 3 different ways:

- a diff from the previous commit (git show COMMIT)
- a snapshot of the current state (git checkout COMMIT)
- a history of every previous commit (git log COMMIT)

but it seems like there's more to it than that