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		eru on May 13, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo > A commit is literally just a snapshot of code base except it tell you what is the previous version of this version. Or previous versions. Plural. Yes. Well, that's one half of git. The other half is tooling to work with the snapshots and their history, eg to perform merges.

mmis1000 on May 13, 2025 [–]

On the other hand, the other part of git aren't really strictly work only for git. Create and apply diff also works for plain folder without git history. They are big part of the ecosystem while not bound to git in a strict way either.

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