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I'm constantly refactoring my code. Yes, not all of them are solution-wide changes, but it would be a huge drain on productivity to check in my code between each refactor. I need to be able to trust my IDE that it will refactor properly and not destroy my code

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Probably an impedance mismatch here, i think the parent is thinking in terms of git (or a.n. other DVCS) where constantly making atomic commits is very natural.

I suspect from what you're saying you're using something else.

E.g. day to day i use subversion. It's possible to adopt this workflow in subversion but it definitely takes more effort on my part.

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