Re: Switching to Subversion

[Sascha Wilde]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:

> Thomas Arendsen Hein <address@hidden> writes:
>>> He provides pretty good arguments _against_ subversion, but also
>>> addresses mercurial vs. git a bit (mercurial is in some sense a riff on
>>> git, btw).
>>
>> If I interpret "riff" as "rip off", I have to disagree here.
>
> Riff does not mean "rip off."

So what does it mean here?  I'm no native speaker and wasn't able to
find something in the dictionary which seemed to fit in the context.

sascha
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