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[[!template id=gitbranch branch=smcv/ready/document-success-reason author="[[smcv]]"
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browse=http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/shortlog/refs/heads/ready/document-success-reason]]
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[[!tag patch]]
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Whenever I look at dependency calculation, for instance to solve
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[[bugs/editing gitbranch template is really slow]], it takes me a while to
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get my head round the concept of influences. The design documentation is
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in [[todo/dependency_types]], but that takes the form of a long discussion
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between [[Joey]] and [[Will]], so it's difficult to tell which of the
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attempts to define influences were incorrect or have been superseded.
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I think it would be valuable to have brief documentation
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as doc-comments in the source code. My branch adds some;
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please confirm whether I got it right? :-)
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It would also be great to have a definition of what
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should or shouldn't be counted as an influence, and which influences
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should count as static or dynamic, perhaps analogous to
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[git-annex's design pages](http://git-annex.branchable.com/design/)
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and linked from the `match_foo` section of [[plugins/write]]. I haven't
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written this myself because I'm somewhat stuck on the subtlety of what
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"indirectly influenced" means... --[[smcv]]
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