[darcs-users] Write-up on "tree repositories" as an alternative to conflictors

[James Cook]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 10:55:22PM +0000, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 24/11/2020 21:43, James Cook wrote:
> > 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".
> 
> FYI I remember Petr Ročkai (mornfall) had a similar idea about
> deactivating patches many years ago, but I can't remember any of the
> details nor can I find what he wrote after searching online a bit.
> 
> So this isn't a very helpful comment except perhaps as a pointer in case
> someone else does a better job searching than me.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ganesh

Recording for the list:

On IRC, mornfall found a link to the writeup in question:
http://darcs.net/Ideas/NewRepositorySemantics

They also pointed to a later idea they had which is written up at
http://paradise.fi.muni.cz/~xrockai/dvs.html, with a note to "ignore the bit
about whitespace on edges, that turned out to be a bad idea".

-- 
James