> Every single point in the commit history represents an actual state of a repository at a specific point of time, along with the information of which point or

> Every single point in the commit history represents an actual state of a repository at a specific point of time, along with the information of which point or points were next before it. This is all part of the true history. Committers always have a choice of which of the changes present in their working tree they stage and then commit. The commit history is always a flat approximation of the real evolution of the files in the repo.