I don't view git as a series of diffs. I view it as a logical extension of my file system to include a time dimension (or in fewer words, as snapshots). It rep

I don't view git as a series of diffs. I view it as a logical extension of my file system to include a time dimension (or in fewer words, as snapshots). It replaces file-v1, file-v2, file-v2-with-changes-from-Alex, etc, that you commonly find on the hard drives of people not familiar with version control. That it can generate meaningful diffs is a product of the type of data we're storing.