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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> It might make it a bit easier for CVS people to get used to the git model: 
> keep your dirty working tree, and do "git pull" to update it, and fix up 
> any conflicts in the working tree. That's how CVS works - it's a bad 
> model, but it's a model that may be worth supporting just to get people 
> more easily into the _good_ model.

If a bad model _is_ supported, what incentive is there for these
people to move into the good model, I honestly wonder...