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Nitpick: A commit is not a diff, it is the entire tree. Any diffs you see are computed, not stored. You can export a commit as a diff+pointer-to-prev-commit,

• jackweirdy 12y ago
  That's true. I simplified for the sake of not delving too far into the details, because it makes sense at the smaller level. It's also true that a commit isn't always just one pointer to the commit that came before it, in a merge there are two pointers, from commit_head and merge_head