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[Monotone-devel] Re: Re: Few remarks
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John S. Yates, Jr. |
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[Monotone-devel] Re: Re: Few remarks |
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Fri, 3 Dec 2004 13:37:44 -0500 |
"Henrik Holmboe" <address@hidden> wrote:
> With that said, one thing that comes to my mind to uniquely identify a
> commit is to use seconds since 00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTC, and the user
> who commited the changeset. It could look something like
> "address@hidden:1102092772". It would be unique and still be
> incrementing (hopefully, or else time would be grinding to a
> halt). Just wanted to throw the suggestion out here. Cant think of
> many downsides to this approach, but I have most probably not thought
> of everything.
Reminds me a bit of the Elephant file system's use of time:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Alistair_Veitch/papers/elephant-sosp/efs.pdf
But rather than use seconds since some base I would suggest time stamps.
This has immediate, intuitive and memorizable significance to any user.
And useful, intuitive, reliable fuzzy matching is easily included.
(Seems to me ClearCase did something similar.)
/john
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