look into patch theory
- Dominant language
- Python
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Description
There is quite a lot of prior art in the area of patch theory (in particular from the darcs community), e.g.
- http://darcs.net/Theory/Motivation
- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Understanding_Darcs/Patch_theory and subsequent pages
- http://darcs.net/Theory/Questions
- http://darcs.net/Theory/MergersDocumentation
- http://darcs.net/Theory/GaneshPatchAlgebra
- ftp://ftp.math.ucla.edu/pub/camreport/cam09-83.pdf
- https://github.com/tummychow/git-scripts/blob/master/git-absorb.md#interlude-patch-theory
We should look into these and see what can be applied to `git-deps`.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Read the linked Darcs patch-theory references and the git-scripts patch-theory section, then compare their concepts with git-deps as described in the repository. Done means identifying which ideas apply to git-deps and recording concrete directions for follow-up work.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- git, python
- Domain
- cli, devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100