On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 10:29:19AM -0700, Carl Baldwin wrote: > To me, this is roughly equivalent to saying that parent pointers > embedded in a commit object is a good idea because we want a richer > relationship than mere "parent". Look how much we've done with this > simple relationship. Similarly, the new relationship that I'm > proposing handles much more than the simple m==n==1 case. Read below > for more detail. Of course, I meant to say "is not a good idea" in the above paragraph. Please pardon my error.