Subject: Re: bug#20137: number of generation doesn't always rise monotonically

From: "Thompson, David" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:52:35 -0400

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
<[email-masked]> wrote:
> [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>>   2. Upon rollback from P to N, keep all the generations, but use P+1
>>      for the next generation number.  Doesn’t work, because rolling back
>>      from P+1 would bring you back to P instead of N.
>
> Perhaps we can eventually move to an actual tree structure where the
> nodes can be named whatever.

+1

- Dave