Re: On raw strings in <origin> commit field

[Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>]

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On +2022-01-01 12:12:33 +0100, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote:
> Am Freitag, dem 31.12.2021 um 20:41 -0500 schrieb Mark H Weaver:
> > I disagree with the last line above.  What makes you think that I'm
> > presupposing that the tag does change?
> > 
> > There's a difference between "presupposing that the tag does change"
> > and "not assuming that the tag will not change".  Do you see the
> > difference?
> I'm pretty sure ¬assume(¬X) = assume(¬¬X) in this concept.  You have to
> start with some assumptions and while ideally we'd like to encode "I
> don't care", we do not have a system that allows us to do so.
> 
> > > However, if we are always talking about more than one possible
> > > "1.2.3" (with the included future tag that we have yet to witness),
> > > we lose the basis by which we currently assign "1.2.3" as the
> > > version 
> > 
> > I see what you're getting at here, but still I disagree.  Our basis
> > for associating version "1.2.3" with commit XYZ is simply that
> > upstream had indicated that version "1.2.3" was commit XYZ.  That
> > historical fact is immutable.
> History is a social construct, it's not immutable.
>

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“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,
“it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – – that’s all.”
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Regards,
Bengt Richter