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look into patch theory

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#39 opened on Feb 7, 2015

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There is quite a lot of prior art in the area of patch theory (in particular from the darcs community), e.g.

We should look into these and see what can be applied to git-deps.

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Research direction
Read the linked resources on patch theory, particularly from the darcs community, and summarize how concepts like commutation, merge, and patch algebra could be applied to improve git deps' dependency detection.
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