Um, I'm pretty sure that one's not a lie. Yes, git currently stores deltas between commits in its pack files, but that's an implementation detail to save space

Um, I'm pretty sure that one's not a lie. Yes, git currently stores deltas between commits in its pack files, but that's an implementation detail to save space. Importantly, it's not how git was originally written, but was added at a later time (although, still a long time ago now). Edit: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-What-is-Git%3F https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-What-is-Git%3...