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> People who wrote backends for later VCSes followed suit, so focused
> on getting their backends minimally working that they failed to notice
> that the upper-level logic was perversely misdesigned.

If you read some of the comments in the code or in the relevant
mailing-lists, you'll soon discover that nobody failed to notice
the misdesign.
Thanks for working on fixing it.


        Stefan