From: Matthew D. Fuller <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:33:36 GMT
Subject: Re: VCS comparison table
Message-ID: <20061022133336.GT75501@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061022092845.233deb43.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>

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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