That's not the point he was getting at. Most people have no idea what VCS is. To a lay person, "a so called 'mercurial repository'" would sound far less sinis

That's not the point he was getting at. Most people have no idea what VCS is. To a lay person, "a so called 'mercurial repository'" would sound far less sinister than "a so called 'subversion repository'". The reality is that the repo probably had little to do with subverting anything, and was just a convenient way to transfer code. I have to admit, that line made me chuckle.