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He checked in the code without permission.

Once it was in there, they didn't roll it back for some reason -- probably because a lot of folks secretly liked the feature and killing it would have been politically difficult. So the User Interface people (why you have these on a command shell is beyond me) were given a chance to pee in the feature for a bit, until they liked the flavor, and it shipped. My cow-orker got into some hot water.



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