Quote: combining revisions and variants creates two hierarchies with disparate semantics; emphasizes the mainline and branches of existing files

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The approach of representing variants within the version … names -- the file's name and the variant … Disparate semantics. … Specifically, the support for automated delta merging is … … Mainline-Centric. The representation of the version namespace assumes … [Furthermore] Users often talk about "a branch" to … semantics of a collective: it only creates variants …   Google-1   Google-2

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