Re: [Monotone-devel] The dark side of content addressing

[Bruce Stephens]

Jon Bright <address@hidden> writes:

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> My intuition said that too - but then I remembered the big
> discussion about Graydon not liking GUIDs, back when we were
> originally discussing revisions.  An alternative, which sticks with
> a kind of content-basedness, might be to take the hash of the branch
> name.

Or a timestamp, or use the key of the person creating the revision.
It doesn't really need to be 160 bits of entropy, I suspect---it's
just to disambiguate otherwise identical initial revisions, so one
could use something meaningful like a timestamp.  That might cause
confusion, I guess.

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