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> I don't think the mere plural 'files' effectively conveys the idea
> that these things are treated atomically as a group rather than sliced
> and diced in parallel as in old VC.

This is a mere "quality of implementation" detail, so I don't think it has
any importance in the manual and the docstrings.


        Stefan