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From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
Subject: Re: CVS -> SVN -> Git
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Markus Schiltknecht <markus@bluegap.ch> writes:
> Sure, we certainly need a meta format of some sort (not a full blown
> VCS, agreed, but somehow we need to represent commits, tags and
> branches). And IMO, the subversion based format is not a good one,
> because it treats branches and tags very different from most other
> systems (and from what it should be from a users perspective: an
> atomic operation).

Huh?  I don't understand what you're saying about atomicity here.