I wrote a description of how to store a repository as a tree of primitive patches with active and inactive branches, as an alternative to conflictors. For context, see recent discussion on the thread "How to extend a patch theory to fully commute".
It is Section 4 of this pdf: https://www.falsifian.org/a/xxOw/misc.pdf (I decided to add it to the end of the last pdf I sent to this list, but you can pretty much ignore the previous sections.) The tex source is at https://hub.darcs.net/falsifian/misc-pub/browse/patch_theory/misc.tex . I tagged this version as "2020-11-24_tree_repositories" but may push corrections. The write-up is pretty long. Part of that is because I put a long examples and motivation section at the start (Section 4.1); hopefully that at least should be easy to get through. Another reason is that my attempt in Section 4.2.11 to show you can view a "tree repository" as a set of "tree patches", in order to retain some of the advantages of "a repository is a set of patches" as in Darcs, turned out to be fairly complicated. I'm not completely satisfied with that section and listed a bunch of caveats at the end. -- James _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@osuosl.org https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
