Well, in the article it says there are 30,000+ mutations, so narrowing it down to the specific ones caused the cascade of other mutations is far from trivial.

Well, in the article it says there are 30,000+ mutations, so narrowing it down to the specific ones caused the cascade of other mutations is far from trivial. A VC system with a corrupted database silently wrecking everything that touches it might not be a bad metaphor, though. (I've had it happen with Perforce. Not fun.)