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Re: On raw strings in <origin> commit field
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Bengt Richter |
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Re: On raw strings in <origin> commit field |
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Sun, 2 Jan 2022 03:07:47 +0100 |
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On +2022-01-01 12:12:33 +0100, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote:
> Am Freitag, dem 31.12.2021 um 20:41 -0500 schrieb Mark H Weaver:
> > I disagree with the last line above. What makes you think that I'm
> > presupposing that the tag does change?
> >
> > There's a difference between "presupposing that the tag does change"
> > and "not assuming that the tag will not change". Do you see the
> > difference?
> I'm pretty sure ¬assume(¬X) = assume(¬¬X) in this concept. You have to
> start with some assumptions and while ideally we'd like to encode "I
> don't care", we do not have a system that allows us to do so.
>
> > > However, if we are always talking about more than one possible
> > > "1.2.3" (with the included future tag that we have yet to witness),
> > > we lose the basis by which we currently assign "1.2.3" as the
> > > version
> >
> > I see what you're getting at here, but still I disagree. Our basis
> > for associating version "1.2.3" with commit XYZ is simply that
> > upstream had indicated that version "1.2.3" was commit XYZ. That
> > historical fact is immutable.
> History is a social construct, it's not immutable.
>
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,
“it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many
different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – – that’s all.”
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
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Regards,
Bengt Richter
- Re: On raw strings in <origin> commit field, (continued)
Re: On raw strings in <origin> commit field,
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Re: On raw strings in <origin> commit field, Ludovic Courtès, 2022/01/03