Re: VC mode and git

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Flexibility means complexity.  Complexity, without a good reason, is
  > bad.  git's complexity is IMAO very bad in this sense.  That this
  > complexity is not needed in a useful VCS is proved by the counterexample
  > of Mercurial.

Furthermore, flexibility and complexity do not necessarily impose a
fixed price in the form of pitfalls.  With good design, more
flexibility (and complexity) can be available to those who want it
without causing trouble for those that don't.


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