Emacs Bazaar repository

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

James Westby writes:

 > May I point you to my blog post of yesterday that explains some of
 > these issues, rather than spell if all out here?
 > 
 > http://jameswestby.net/weblog/bzr/01-revision-numbers.html
 > 
 > The last section is on this particular issue.
 > 
 > The gist of it is that topological sorting means that children appear
 > before their parents. bzr does "merge sorting" that ensures that a
 > revision does not appear after a revision that it is not an ancestor
 > of.

Excuse me?  There may be something sensible you wish to say, but what
I have quoted is not it.  If A and B are not ordered by ancestry both
"AB" and "BA" fail to be a "merge sort" according to that criterion.