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From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Subject: bug#20137: number of generation doesn't always rise monotonically
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:52:35 -0400
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To: Taylan Ulrich =?UTF-8?Q?Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1/Kammer?= <taylanbayirli@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Taylan Ulrich Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1/Kammer
<taylanbayirli@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 roll=
ing 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.

+1

- Dave