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Chong Yidong wrote:

> when there is no equivalent in the other VC backends.

Apart from arch, svn, and bzr.

I really don't see what the big deal is in having a defcustom, and I
think that all the vc backends should be as similar as possible. (I
suspect this means I have condemned those other variables to be
removed.)