I agree -- so many of the advertised advantages of git depend on operations on diffs, especially the confusing ones that people find difficult to learn, which m

I agree -- so many of the advertised advantages of git depend on operations on diffs, especially the confusing ones that people find difficult to learn, which makes it very confusing for beginners and casual users when they hear "commits are snapshots" said in a tone that seems to imply that thinking of them as diffs is an abhorrent error. Yes, understanding that they are conceptually snapshots is useful, but git wouldn't be git if it didn't do a ton of work on diffs day to day.