[berkes]

The git-cli is an inconsistent mess, agreed.

The data-model, however, is not. It is actually a very smart, mathematical (cryptographical) tree-structure[1].

I'm pretty sure some far future generation will be able to figure out the math behind a "git database". I'm actually more confident they will be able to do so, than your average "excel" or "winrar backup".

-- [1] I really started liking git and understanding what it all is about (and how to use the weird commandline --flags - or was is -flags or -f or -F or flags) after reading the Git From the Bottom Up book: https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/