One thing to explain git that I think it's highly useful for beginners (but I haven't been able to prove it) is to explain that commits are basically "project (

One thing to explain git that I think it's highly useful for beginners (but I haven't been able to prove it) is to explain that commits are basically "project (copy)" folders that people without git create to "save". Then you can explain that git saves them in a highly efficient format (even better than zipping them) and allows to fast operations like comparing.