obsolete marker terminology

Paul Jackson pj at usa.net
Tue Nov 19 08:39:42 UTC 2019


On the page:

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/doc/evolution/obs-terms.html

the author notes:

> I’m not very happy with this naming scheme and I’m looking for a better distinction between direct successors and any successors.

How about: ancestor and descendant, and (for the direct case) parent and child.

This is in line with the directed graph terminology at:

http://www-math.ucdenver.edu/~wcherowi/courses/m4408/glossary.html

(If there was a better place for me to suggest this, I welcome the advice - thanks!)

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 Paul Jackson
 pj at usa.net
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