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An afterthought:

On Jul 9, 2015, at 6:15 AM, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:

> There are the usual corner cases when two applications/threads/authors want to make modification on the same thing, e.g. what happens if i have a (pcb-gschem-wise) consistent design and then I change the same pinout in two different ways in the same time in PCB and in gschem and then do a forward annotation and a back annotation... But I think these could beworked around.

If you’re just making changes until a diff shows nothing, it doesn’t matter whether you make them upstream or downstream. Just quit when you have a match!

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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