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> when one reads a real book about real world history, does it look more like git log history of a repo which has been using rebase, or merge?

This is a bizarre analogy. History books are a record of things that happened in the world's timeline, which is in fact linear. Source control is a record of things which happened in the timeline of development, which is typically branched.

Imagine a history book from some terrifying PKD-esque sci-fi universe where timelines branch and re-converge. Does that look more like git log history of a repo which has been using rebase, or merge?