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Re:Fossil: A decentralized version control, bug tracking, an... by alphapapa on Monday October 10, 2016 @02:06AM (#12675346)
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> To be clear: Fossil should not have malfunctioned. Yet even so, no work was lost as a result of the malfunction. The safety mechanisms built into Fossil did their job and uncommitted changes were preserved. The work was lost when Zed panicked and started entering a bunch of additional commands, in an attempt to recover, without stopping to think through what was happening. In fairness to Zed, I might well have done the same thing.

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