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