On Git

Giles Thomas commenting on A Guide to GIT using spatial analogies:

A much simpler view IMO is to consider the Git repositories as narratives, or meta-narratives, each committer being seen as an author of one or more. This is made particularly clear in the git man pages, where a predominant concept is the distinction between closing and opening — in a sense, it promotes the use of structural deappropriation to challenge the linear view of “revisions”. As Torvalds says, “[l]inearity is fundamentally impossible”, so the repository — or at least, a branch — is interpolated into a realism that includes the “current” revision (tip or head, as you prefer) as a reality. To put it in political terms, Mercurial deconstructs Marxist socialism, while Git analyses capitalist construction.