I suspect the last is the most important, because, human nature being what it is, I'd probably look for ways to "get around" the system if it were too complicated or too onerous to use and defeat the ...

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Git, the open source distributed version control system created by Linus Torvalds to handle Linux’s decentralized development model, is being used for a rather surprising project: Windows.

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