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by mmis1000 398 days ago
In some sense, git is actually like advanced zip versioning system. A commit is literally just a snapshot of code base except it tell you what is the previous version of this version.

Also, git store the files in a smarter way so file size won't explode like zip versioning.
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eru 398 days ago
> A commit is literally just a snapshot of code base except it tell you what is the previous version of this version.

Or previous versions. Plural. Yes.

Well, that's one half of git. The other half is tooling to work with the snapshots and their history, eg to perform merges.

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mmis1000 398 days ago
On the other hand, the other part of git aren't really strictly work only for git. Create and apply diff also works for plain folder without git history. They are big part of the ecosystem while not bound to git in a strict way either.
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