[Monotone-devel] Re: rename boundary failure in 0.25

[Bruce Stephens]

Ethan Blanton <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> This was surprising to me, as well, but when I was thinking about
> fixing it a path forward wasn't clear to me.  I think the best
> solution I see is to provide a default-key hook and then an
> --anonymous option for when you really honestly do want an anonymous
> push/pull.  I personally use signed operations more often than
> anonymous operations, anyway, so I'd rather type nothing for the
> default key.  (Others might disagree.)

The two cases are probably a bit different: you never want to do
anonymous things except for netsync.  

So maybe the default hook just affects the key used for signing, and
for netsync, use a database var (since that's how the default patterns
and default server are stored)?