The fact that commits are organized in a DAG is absolutely not an implementation detail. It's one of the core concepts of distributed version control. It's als

The fact that commits are organized in a DAG is absolutely not an implementation detail. It's one of the core concepts of distributed version control. It's also kind of silly to call git's terminology "non-standard". Git was the first truly widely used DVCS, so if anything, git's terminology is the standard terminology by definition.