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Re:Scaling Mercurial at Facebook by gecko on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @05:20PM (#7020410)
That sentiment comprises a truly mindblowing number of "bug" reports that hit the Mercurial mailing list every month. I honestly wonder sometimes if I'm simply forgetting how CVS users did the same thing when Subversion shipped and I forgot about it/missed it, or what.
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Re:Scaling Mercurial at Facebook by durin42 on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @06:16PM (#7020695)
svn was designed to be "CVS done right," which informed a lot of the design and workflow to the point that some CVS misfeatures only got carried through by virtue of that mandate.

(Source of this assertion is prolonged discussions with sussman, one of the early svn authors.)

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