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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>,
	Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
	Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
	jpaugh@gmx.us, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Specifying revisions in the future
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:28:25 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buosjiozity.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2obtcx4i2.fsf@igel.home>

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> The rule should be to follow the leftmost parent as far as possible.
> That means that X+2->D is B.

It might also be reasonable (and safer -- the user may not actually
realize when there's an ambiguating branch-point) to simply have it
abort with an error ("ambiguous future-ref specification") when
there's any doubt...  I suspect most uses would be very simple "+1"
etc., and not crossing branch points.

-miles

-- 
`There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
 Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-06  4:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-04 15:58 Specifying revisions in the future jpaugh
2012-02-05  2:44 ` Jakub Narebski
     [not found]   ` <4F2DEF89.4030302@gmx.us>
2012-02-05  3:07     ` Jakub Narebski
2012-02-05 20:18 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-02-05 21:37   ` Andreas Schwab
2012-02-05 21:57     ` Jakub Narebski
2012-02-05 22:15       ` Andreas Schwab
2012-02-05 22:24         ` Jakub Narebski
2012-02-05 22:58           ` Andreas Schwab
2012-02-05 22:58           ` Philip Oakley
2012-02-05 23:08             ` Andreas Schwab
2012-02-06  4:28               ` Miles Bader [this message]
2012-02-07 21:25                 ` Jonathan Paugh
2012-02-06 11:43               ` Matthieu Moy
2012-02-06 12:27                 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-02-05 21:59     ` Junio C Hamano

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