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city41 on Aug 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: OS X Mountain Lion: Data Loss via 'Save As'

That is only possible in a distributed version control system. Apple's behavior is more similar to SVN/CVS/etc. And for sure DVCS is better and the future, but modeling their functionality after a system that's been used for decades doesn't quite qualify as NIH syndrome IMO.

spitfire on Aug 5, 2012 [–]

That's what I was thinking about. You've got to start somewhere, and this will be accepted by aunt Tilly.

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