From Jonas Schürmann to ~euandreh/public-inbox
> Hmmm, I haven't heard this term before. Are these [0] the complete > categories that you mean? > > [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_category Yes, exactly. The idea is pretty abstract and while I know a little bit about category theory I'm by no means an expert on the subject. This blog post [1] is a very down-to-earth, practical explanation how the concept of (co)completed categories can be applied to conflict representation in version control systems. [1] https://jneem.github.io/merging/
From Jonas Schürmann to ~euandreh/public-inbox
Hello EuAndreh, I read your blog post with excitement because I'm currently on a very similar quest. My goal is to bring back application data into the hands of the users (and onto their devices) to replace centralized, cloud-based data stores. I wrote down what I wanted in this blog post [1]. Like you, I didn't find anything that seemed to work like I wanted, so I decided to start exploring the problem myself. While you go for the Git-like approach of three-way-merges, I am trying to model conflict situations with completed categories. I can't say that I've come very far yet. I realized that properly