Re: How to extend a patch theory to fully commute

Ben Franksen <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Jul 2020 11:11:58 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.darcs.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 01.07.20 um 05:09 schrieb James Cook:
> The overall procedure is this:
> 
> 1. Merge the individual patches to be permuted into a patch sequence
> address (a, b, (Qi), (nj), X, Y). (You could merge a pair of adjacent
> patches, the whole sequence of patches in the repo, or anything in
> between.)

I think it would be good if you pointed out that what you call "merging"
here is unrelated to what is usually understood as merging patches or
patch sequences. Even better would be to avoid the term "merging" and
instead give the concept a new name, such as "combine" or "join".

Cheers
Ben