Git is just...

2005: "Git is just a directed acyclic graph." - Linus Torvalds 2009: "Git is just a content-addressable filesystem." - Scott Chacon 2011: "Git is just homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space." - Chi Wai Lau 2026: "Git is a just a confessional booth where you ask an AI to absolve you of your merge conflicts." - Patrick Wyatt