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Title's a bit off. cvs/svn/bzr and any version control system doesn't solve it either, and they weren't meant to. Fowler's article doesn't have that in the title, so I don't think he was even trying to imply that people think version control solves this issue in the first place.

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Plus it is the case with hg (but I guess also with git) that you can use any merge tool to merge your files. Once someone write such a tool, everyone profit!

(My understanding is that it happens too rarely in practice to make it worth the effort)

Agreed. Title is pure link-bait.

The only VCS I see mentioned is git in one of the footnotes regarding rerere.

Just to note: it isn't the author's title, it's a Hacker News users' title.

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