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> and at that point I'm just replicating a branch!

Yes. My entire point is that you can always replicate branches with actual, explicit files, and that this is a good thing to do because files are (very often) better than branches. Files plus some editor discipline are essentially equivalent to branches.

Files+discipline are better than branches, according to standard unix philosophy: (1) everything is a file, (2) protocol not policy.



Oh dear. I was joking.


Discipline is policy, not protocol.




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