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1. implement the patch category that Pijul uses

2. compose the patches

3. either you have a nice diff to show the user, or an explanation of why that is not possible, like "Can't show you the composition of A, X, Q because X depends on C"

Unfortunately they keep rewriting pijul from scratch.

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I am excited about the current rewrite though since (if it lives up to the hype) it'll bring performance good enough to use Pijul for non-tiny projects.

Not sure if Pijul will be the software to do it, but someday we'll all be using patch-based VCSs and look back at graph-based models like git the same way we look at non-DVCS today.

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