On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:38:48AM +0100, Jamie Webb wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 05:03:07PM +0200, Albert Reiner wrote:
> > The real question is whether this inv(P)TPR will be equivalent to R as
> > far as commutations are concerned, i.e., whether inv(P)TP = id is
> > recognized and patches will commute as if inv(P)TP were not even
> > there.
> 
> AFAICT, Darcs does not consider that inv(P)P = id, so, err, no.

Indeed, this is a mistake one of the students in my group has made, which
caused trouble for precisely this reason, in that he ended up recording a
patch that depended on both P and inv(P).  Best to use branches for
excursions.

With the next-generation conflict-handling (which is still buggy), this
should be handled better.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.darcs.net

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