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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
Subject: Re: VCS comparison table
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:33:36 -0500
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On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 09:28:45AM -0400 I heard the voice of
Sean, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> Sure, but if they're just a local feature then why propagate them
> with the distributed data?

Because they're 'local' to a given "branch"; see my message to cworth
a little while ago for expansion of the rather particular meaning of
the word used here.  If somebody takes a clone of my _branch_, it's
the same "branch", so the numbers will be the same (and that's
desired).


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