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From: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Subject: Re: Xen repository
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 10:35:33 -0700
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    Arun> Why would a read-mostly user need atomic commits? For
    Arun> changesets, something like mercurial would give more
    Arun> information, because it's able to represent branches and
    Arun> merges better.

Atomic commits are extremely useful for read-mostly users -- with
per-file versioning as in CVS, it becomes very difficult to do a
binary search to find out which changeset introduced a problem.  With
subversion, it's quite easy for a tester to do this and be able to say
"r1234 worked for me, r1235 crashes."

 - R.