git is a facade and "git add" actually calls "git-add". On Windows this means separate exes, git-add.exe, git-commit.exe, git-update.exe, etc. But all these e

git is a facade and "git add" actually calls "git-add". On Windows this means separate exes, git-add.exe, git-commit.exe, git-update.exe, etc. But all these exes are actually identical. So git is multiple copies of a single program which can do many things!