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		WolfeReader 20 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The future of version control Darcs did this decades ago with the "replace" command. It's not a legitimate semantic replacement, though - it's more just telling your VCS to do a find/replace.

gnufx 20 days ago [–]

As far as I remember, that's just because only the find/replace was implemented, and it could have more sophisticated (semantic?) features.

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