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		dochtman on Jan 25, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I'm going to slowly move on from Mercurial I was a Mercurial crew member for a few years (2008 to I don't know) and was very happy to be able to learn from Matt in his role as BDFL. His principled stance against layering violations and his policy to require really small commits still influence my coding every day. I hope he finds something new to give him satisfaction/joy!

tonfa on Jan 25, 2016 | [–]

+1, working with Matt was also extremely formative, I learned a lot of best practices during those years.

ufo on Jan 26, 2016 | [–]

What do you mean by "layering violations"?

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