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> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:55:57 +0100
> Cc: tassilo@member.fsf.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
> 
> >    	  CVS           GIT
> > 	  save file  =  commit
> 
> No.  Saving a file will not give you all the version control history and
> tools and diffs and branching and other tools that committing does under
> git.

What tools and diffs are those?  So far, AFAIU, the only difference
between save-file and GIT commit is that with the latter, you can
start a (local) branch.  If there are other reasons for local commits,
what are they?