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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux
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Oren Ben-Kiki |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux |
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Tue, 7 Dec 2004 20:17:40 +0200 |
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Bruce Stephens wrote:
> Giving stable globally usable names to things in such distributed
> systems isn't impossible (Arch has one approach, X.500 another), but
> I'm not sure what would be suitable for monotone. My guess is that a
> good usable solution is likely to turn out to be local names which
> aren't stable (i.e., they reflect the current local notion of
> revisions), together with stable IDs which are equivalent to hashes.
And Richard Levitte wrote:
> I guess the biggie is, again, distributed databases, and
> communication. I'm assuming that the version numbers would be highly
> local, and not get distributed to other databases. That would make
> it tricky for me telling anyone to please look at version 17 of some
> file in my branch, as the other person probably has a different
> version number.
There *is* a way for having stable, readable, consistent distributed
revision ids, by using CVS-like fork numbers and using the author's
name as the fork's id:
/-> 4.bruce.1 -> 4.bruce.2 (fork by bruce)
/
1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> 5 (main trunk)
|\
| \-> 3.richard-1.1 -> 3.richard-1.2 (fork by richard)
\
\-> 3.richard-2.1 (another fork by richard)
(This is all within a single branch, of course.)
Have fun,
Oren Ben-Kiki
- [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux, (continued)
- [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux, Bruce Stephens, 2004/12/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux, Nathan Myers, 2004/12/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux, Jon Bright, 2004/12/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux, Logan Sackette, 2004/12/07
- [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux, Bruce Stephens, 2004/12/07
- [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux, John S. Yates, Jr., 2004/12/07
- [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux, Bruce Stephens, 2004/12/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux, derek, 2004/12/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux, Nathaniel Smith, 2004/12/08
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2004/12/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux,
Oren Ben-Kiki <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux, Nathaniel Smith, 2004/12/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux, Oren Ben-Kiki, 2004/12/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux, Jerome Fisher, 2004/12/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux, Nathaniel Smith, 2004/12/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux, Jerome Fisher, 2004/12/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux, Zack Weinberg, 2004/12/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux, Nathaniel Smith, 2004/12/07
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux, John S. Yates, Jr., 2004/12/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux, Nathaniel Smith, 2004/12/07
- [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux, graydon hoare, 2004/12/05