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<div style="DIRECTION: ltr"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>On </b>Sunday, June 07, 2009 at 8:43 PM <font face="Tahoma" size="2">Ben Finney [ben+bazaar@benfinney.id.au] wrote:</font><br></font><font size="2"><br>> I think the fact that you have to explain that “patch” doesn't mean<br><font size="2">> </font>what anyone unfamiliar with Darcs but experienced with Unix programming<br><font size="2">> </font>would expect it to mean, says a lot about the gap in explanation of a<br><font size="2">> </font>phrase like “a change is a patch”.<br><font size="2">> </font><br><font size="2">> </font>> You are really literal-minded, aren't you?<br><font size="2">> </font><br><font size="2">> </font>I had pre-existing definitions of words that didn't match what you were<br><font size="2">> </font>telling me about them, so needed clarification on what exactly we're<br><font size="2">> </font>talking about. I don't think that makes me especially literal-minded.<br></font></div>
<div style="DIRECTION: ltr"><font size="2"><font face="times new roman">Ben, You might benefit from reading some of the following.</font></font></div>
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<div style="DIRECTION: ltr"><font face="times new roman" size="2">"Understanding darcs" (short and sweet with pretty pictures):</font></div>
<div style="DIRECTION: ltr"><a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Understanding_darcs" target="_blank">http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Understanding_darcs</a></div>
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<div style="DIRECTION: ltr"><font size="2">"Conflict FAQ":</font></div>
<div style="DIRECTION: ltr"><a href="http://wiki.darcs.net/ConflictsFAQ" target="_blank">http://wiki.darcs.net/ConflictsFAQ</a></div>
<div style="DIRECTION: ltr"><font face="times new roman"></font> </div>
<div style="DIRECTION: ltr"><font size="2">"Understanding darcs/Patch theory":</font></div>
<div style="DIRECTION: ltr"><font size="2"><a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Understanding_darcs/Patch_theory" target="_blank">http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Understanding_darcs/Patch_theory</a></font></div>
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<div style="DIRECTION: ltr"><font size="2"><font face="times new roman">/john</font></div></font></body></html>