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by pnathan 5223 days ago
> offices are all about the lowest common denominator.

This is so true. Office IT is driven around 96% case of their users... the bottom 96% I believe. Power users are not the segment office IT cares about (or likes caring about IME). I wrote to the hg mailing list recently about a particular feature set, and I want to snip a certain statement I made, which is generalizable out to other tools besides hg.

""" Do note that any time someone has to consciously do something, e.g., hg push -B, pull -B, a large segment of users will not do that, even though (1) man pages say to, (2) their boss says to, (3), the program itself suggests it - in red letters, (4) training materials say to. This means that hg bookmarks will not work as a workflow for these users out of the box, because errors will constantly come up. """