From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 17:03:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Patch calculus
Message-ID: <e0p04c$svk$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <e0ou7b$moa$1@sea.gmane.org>

J. Bruce Fields wrote:
 
> What are the benefits of patch calculus?  (What is it?  The only
> explanation I've seen is at
>   http://abridgegame.org/darcs/manual/node8.html,
> but I don't find it very helpful.)

See also http://www.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/PatchTheory
particularly http://www.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/WhyYouWantPatchTheory

and http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Understanding_darcs

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland