To visualise this, it’s simplest to think of the state of your repository as a point in a high- dimensional ‘code-space’,  in which branches are rep

To visualise this, it’s simplest to think of the state of your repository as a point in a high- dimensional ‘code-space’,  in which branches are represented as n-dimensional membranes, mapping the spatial loci of successive commits onto the projected manifold of each cloned repository. Oh, of course, it's so clear to me now! -_-