> I think the underlying model is fantastic The well-documented underlying model used to confuse me a lot - especially for operations like merging, rebasing (s

> I think the underlying model is fantastic The well-documented underlying model used to confuse me a lot - especially for operations like merging, rebasing (squash, reorder, ...), cherry picking, etc. They started to make sense only when I realized that git uses diffs/patches to propagate changes between unrelated commits. While the on-disk format is purely snapshot-based, the tool itself is a hybrid. As far as I can tell, this trips up a lot of others too.