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rbehrends on Jan 8, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scaling Mercurial at Facebook

I have wondered why they're called "extensions" rather than "modules", which I think would characterize their actual use better.

dgesang on Jan 8, 2014 [–]

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