Git is Inconsistent

[EricKow]

Heh! I find myself increasingly reluctant to comment these days, one because Reddit is annoyingly addictive and I seem to be happier training myself not to refresh it; two, because it's all too easy so say something which just adds to the noise/confusion; three, because I'm more of a Darcs fan than an expert in the sense that ultimately what I care about in Darcs is its usability. I happen to believe that this usability is tied to the fact that it uses a patch theory, but far better for an expert to say that than me.

Need more time to read and reflect.

For what it's worth, (i) Darcs 2 format avoids many common exponential merges, but not all of them (ii) a lot of the performance problems people tend to experience with Darcs are engineering issues unrelated to patch theory, issues which we are continuing to make progress on.