hi, On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > It is a simple matter of the word "acyclic" in the term "DAG". It means > > that whenever you need to refer to a commit, it either comes before or > > after the commit you need it for, not both directions. > > I fell in the same "acyclic" fallacy before I realized it was a mistake, > especially after thought about the "rewritten B needs to be used more > than twice as a merge source" issue. That's why I earlier said the > beauty of your approach is attractive but it "unfortunately" breaks > down. I do not understand. The topological order assures that you have rewritten every commit that needs to be rewritten before rewriting the current commit. Puzzled, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html