In internet terms: It's just a soyjak holding a box with data who is pointing at another soyjak holding a box with data who is pointing at another {insert N-3 of the same soyjaks} soyjak with a box with data without an arm to point with

[–] ibk@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand what a soyjak is.

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

soyjaks pointing linked list

Kourtesy of Krita

[–] sheepishly@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I still don't understand Git but I like this image

[–] gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago

each commit points to the one before. additionally a commit stores which lines in which files changed compared to the previous commit. a branch points to a particular commit.

[–] Denvil@lemmy.one 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's just a thingie

[–] philm@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

Almost... To be precise it's a Merkle DAG