From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: resolving ambiguity in action stamps (was: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult) Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 12:45:38 +0900 Message-ID: <87wq9841zx.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <20140912043652.4D6D8380604@snark.thyrsus.com> <83zje56ymd.fsf@gnu.org> <20140912083430.GA32586@thyrsus.com> <87mwa59i1r.fsf@igel.home> <20140912115739.GA3403@thyrsus.com> <87d2b19cbr.fsf@igel.home> <20140912155410.GA5086@thyrsus.com> <877g188uc3.fsf_-_@slice.rozzin.com> <20140912204111.GA12328@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410579976 574 80.91.229.3 (13 Sep 2014 03:46:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 03:46:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 13 05:46:07 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XSeHk-0003OG-MH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2014 05:46:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48252 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSeHk-0007v1-3t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:46:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34451) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSeHa-0007tz-30 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:46:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSeHP-0000Mq-Ha for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:45:54 -0400 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:53930) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSeHP-0000MC-7l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:45:43 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id A00C71C3AFF; Sat, 13 Sep 2014 12:45:38 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 920FD1A2829; Sat, 13 Sep 2014 12:45:38 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <20140912204111.GA12328@thyrsus.com> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" acf1c26e3019 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.161 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:174262 Archived-At: Eric S. Raymond writes: > I couldn't invent one. I believe this is mathematically equivalent > to total-ordering the DAG. Which you can't do. You must have other conditions in mind for your allowable total orders, since any finite partial order can be extended to a total order (topological sort), usually in several ways. Not even the Emacs repo has an uncountable number of revisions (although working with bzr sometimes makes me feel like it does).