Clone Terminology

When talking about a clone we need to differentiate between the nodes
in Leo's tree that share the same textual content and sub-tree, I'll
call them “clone nodes”, and the logical entity which is the clone
itself, so to speak, and is represented in Leo by a GNX (a unique
global identifier), I'll call it “clone entity”. Furthermore, there
are 3 different clone types to consider. I call the first “zero source
clone”. This is the type of clone in which all clone nodes are managed
exclusively by Leo (“internal nodes”), i.e. none of the clone nodes
are a child of a file that is read back by Leo. The second is “single
source clone”. For this clone type, only one clone node (the “external
node”) is a descendant of a file that is read back by Leo, i.e. this
type of clone has only one clone node who's content may be changed
outside of Leo. The third and last clone type is “multi source clone”.
This is the most problem prune clone type and it has two or more clone
nodes who's content may be changed outside of Leo's control (“external
nodes”). These may even be two clone nodes in the same derived file.

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