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From: taylanbayirli@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich
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Subject: bug#20137: number of generation doesn't always rise monotonically
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 21:47:47 +0100
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:

>   2. Upon rollback from P to N, keep all the generations, but use P+1
>      for the next generation number.  Doesn=E2=80=99t work, because rolli=
ng back
>      from P+1 would bring you back to P instead of N.

Perhaps we can eventually move to an actual tree structure where the
nodes can be named whatever.  Until now I thought that's how generations
work, and are just named after integers for identification purposes.

Taylan