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Re: [Monotone-devel] Proposal for human readable revision IDs
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Thomas Haas |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Proposal for human readable revision IDs |
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Wed, 07 Sep 2005 17:07:20 +0200 |
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Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:00:02PM +0200, Thomas Haas wrote:
>
>
>>I tried to describe my problem in my answer to Nathaniel. Short:
>>Selectors do only work for revisions, not for other things, such as
>>manifests and files. And, I find 40 byte hex strings hard to compare,
>>match, and generally process.
>>
>
>
> Putting spaces or other punctuation in the hash might help.
> Say, after every eight characters? Or as the crypto people used
> to do, after every five? Or an irregular pattern, to keep you eyes
> from getting lost, like
>
> xxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxx xx-xx xxxxxxxxxx xx-xx xx
>
> -- hendrik
I believe such formatting could help readability, while using even more
real estate from the screen... But, formatting might still be better
than the why ids are displayed today.
Regards
- tom
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs, (continued)
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Thomas Haas, 2005/09/06
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Bruce Stephens, 2005/09/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Thomas Haas, 2005/09/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Matt Johnston, 2005/09/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Thomas Haas, 2005/09/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Hendrik Boom, 2005/09/07
Re: [Monotone-devel] Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Thomas Haas, 2005/09/06
Re: [Monotone-devel] Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Hendrik Boom, 2005/09/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Thomas Haas, 2005/09/07
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Bruce Stephens, 2005/09/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Andy Jones, 2005/09/07
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Bruce Stephens, 2005/09/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/09/08
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Bruce Stephens, 2005/09/08
Re: [Monotone-devel] Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Hendrik Boom, 2005/09/07