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Re: Specifying revisions in the future

From
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date
Feb 6, 2012, 04:28 UTC
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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> The rule should be to follow the leftmost parent as far as possible.
> That means that X+2->D is B.

It might also be reasonable (and safer -- the user may not actually realize when there's an ambiguating branch-point) to simply have it abort with an error ("ambiguous future-ref specification") when there's any doubt... I suspect most uses would be very simple "+1" etc., and not crossing branch points.

-miles
-- 
`There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
 Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'
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