>I still think that it's more intuitive to describe commits as diffs, in the context of things like cherry-picking a commit or rebasing/reordering a series of c

>I still think that it's more intuitive to describe commits as diffs, in the context of things like cherry-picking a commit or rebasing/reordering a series of commits. If I understood the article correctly, those things actually are implemented via diffs. It's just that the diffs are calculated on-the-fly, used to create a new snapshot, and then discarded.