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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
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	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wq9841zx.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140912204111.GA12328@thyrsus.com>

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).



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-13  3:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-12  4:36 Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12  6:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12  9:55   ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 10:33     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 10:49       ` Gregor Zattler
2014-09-12 13:05         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 13:19           ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 13:29             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 13:55               ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-12 14:12                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 15:17                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 15:21                   ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-12 17:15                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 17:43                       ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-12 15:53                   ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 17:22                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 19:28                       ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 19:59                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 13:57               ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 14:26                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 11:38       ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 13:14         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 16:27           ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 11:46       ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2014-09-12 13:56         ` Paul Eggert
2014-09-12 15:08     ` Barry Warsaw
2014-09-12 16:16       ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12  6:47 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-09-12  7:25   ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12  9:34     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-09-12  8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12  8:34   ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12  8:40     ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 11:47     ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-12 11:57       ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 12:17         ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 13:51         ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-12 15:54           ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 16:04             ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 16:18             ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-12 16:28               ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 16:43                 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 20:19             ` resolving ambiguity in action stamps (was: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult) Joshua Judson Rosen
2014-09-12 20:41               ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 21:44                 ` resolving ambiguity in action stamps Joshua Judson Rosen
2014-09-13  3:45                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2014-09-13  5:35                   ` resolving ambiguity in action stamps (was: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult) Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-13  6:57                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-13  7:26                       ` resolving ambiguity in action stamps Harald Hanche-Olsen
2014-09-13 10:50                         ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-13 12:43                           ` Yuri Khan
2014-09-14  7:34                           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-14 10:55                             ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-14 11:03                               ` David Kastrup
2014-09-14 13:30                               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-14 14:06                                 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-14 15:51                                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-14 14:21                                 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-14 15:45                                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-14 15:59                                     ` David Kastrup
2014-09-14 17:12                                     ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-15  0:09                                       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-13  8:51                       ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-12 14:12       ` Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult Sam Steingold
2014-09-12 14:36         ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 14:44           ` Yuri Khan
2014-09-12 15:24             ` Sam Steingold
2014-09-12 15:59               ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 16:12             ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 17:06               ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-12 20:35                 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-09-12 15:21           ` Sam Steingold
2014-09-12 15:34             ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2014-09-12 15:51             ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 17:44             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-12 17:58               ` David Caldwell
2014-09-12 19:19                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-12 18:01               ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2014-09-12 19:36             ` Joshua Judson Rosen
2014-10-28 21:11               ` Randal L. Schwartz
2014-09-12 15:30         ` Phillip Lord
2014-09-12 15:57           ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 17:10           ` Stefan Monnier

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