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diff --git a/THEORY b/THEORY
index f40a1fc..83de604 100644
--- a/THEORY
+++ b/THEORY
@@ -15,14 +15,27 @@ COMMIT ANNOTATIONS
 
  P(C)
    Either P s.t. C \elem P
-   or \bottom meaning \notexists_{P} C \elem P.
+   or _|_ meaning \notexists_{P} C \elem P.
+
+ { Pi | C \haspatch Pi }
+   ie the set of included patches
 
  For every Px, E(C,Px+)
    Implicitly for C \elem Pc+, E(C,Pc+) = { C } 
    and this is not annotated explicitly.
-   Also implicitly for P(C) = \bottom, \forall_{Px} E(C,Px+) = { }
+   Also implicitly for P(C) = _|_, \forall_{Px} E(C,Px+) = { }
    and this is also not annotated explicitly.
 
+ B(C)
+   For C \elem P+:       B s.t. E(C,P-) = { B }
+       P(C) = P- or _|_: _|_
+
+ Of these in principle all except P(C) can be recalculated from the
+ commit history, but that would involve a complete history scan and in
+ the case of \haspatch is clearly impractical.  At some point we may
+ provide a checker/sanitiser that recalculates E(C,Px+) and B(C) from
+ the commit history.
+
 SIMPLE COMMIT
 
  make C >1 { A } 
@@ -104,7 +117,7 @@ CREATE BASE
  from L, P
 
  where
-  P(L) = Pl+ v P(L) = \bottom
+  P(L) = Pl+ v P(L) = _|_
   P(L) != P(B)
   E(B,P+) = { }