-\section{Notation}
+\stdsection{Notation}
+
+Throughout, any free variables are implicitly universally quantified
+at the outermost level.
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All of these sets will be disjoint by construction
(see Invariants, below). Hence:
+\item[ $\foreign$ ]
+The set of all commits which are not part of a Topbloke branch. We
+call these foreign commits.
+
+\item[ $\set A$, $\set P$, $\ldots$ ]
+Arbitrary sets of commits. Maybe $\set P = \p$ i.e.\ some $\py$ or $\pn$, but
+maybe not.
+
\item[ $ \patchof{ C } $ ]
-Either $\p$ s.t. $ C \in \p $, or $\bot$.
+Either $\p$ s.t. $ C \in \p $, or $\foreign$.
A function from commits to patches' sets $\p$.
\item[ $ \pancsof{C}{\set P} $ ]