Question concerning the meaning of an equality sign in a commutative diagram

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$\require{AMScd}$ I have the following question:

Let $\mathscr{C}$ be a category, $X,Y,Z\in Ob(\mathscr{C}), \ f\in Mor(X,Y),\ g\in Mor(Y,Z)$ and $h\in Mor(X,Z)$.

Question: What does the equality sign in the following diagram mean?

$$ \begin{CD} X @>f>> Y\\ @| @VVgV \\ X @>>h> Z \end{CD} $$

Does the equality sign only emphasize that the two objects are indeed the same, or does it mean that we have $X\stackrel{id}{\rightarrow}X$ or does it mean that we have an arbitrary isomorphism $X\stackrel{\sim}{\rightarrow}X$?

Thank you very much!

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It represents the identity map. The notation also implies that you could think of the diagram as being the same as a triangle, with the two $X$s being squished together (kind of like a quotient of the diagram or something).