How reliable is Unison? Did it ever ruin your data?

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Published on 2009-11-04T12:35:40Z Indexed on 2010/05/17 9:21 UTC
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I am interested in facts, when using unison ( http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ ) ruined your data? I want to find out about its reliability.

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