wip thoughts about props reorg

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@@ -186,3 +186,9 @@ Unnecessary - instead, deal with leaf patches
 Operations like "go up the stack", goes towards leaf.  Hopefully unique.
 "Down" the stack, uses a "conventional" linearisation
 Stack reordering op ?  auto adjust deps
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+When merging, we need to DTRT with our metadata.
+So we do this by running write-tree/read-tree etc. ourselves.
+For a source we're merging from, we make a version where the
+metadata we shouldn't be merging is removed.