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Re:Scaling Mercurial at Facebook by JoshTriplett on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @01:26AM (#7022059)
It's like using Outlook to respond to mail on a mailing list. Sure, it's theoretically possible to use some combination of manual configuration and extra work to construct a post that won't violate social norms, but the tool doesn't encourage it, so mailing lists with a significant number of Outlook users on them tend to fail to follow the standard mailing list conventions of other lists, and develop their own conventions.

The same holds for any tool used in a workflow that involves anyone other than yourself: any tool with a default workflow tends to encourage people to follow that default workflow.

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