Re: [Monotone-devel] Comparison of Monotone and git

[Matthew Nicholson]

William Uther wrote:
> The interesting part here is that Monotone has a global namespace for 
> branches, whereas git has a local namespace for branches.  By default in 
> git you get a 1:1 local:remote branch name mapping, but you can 
> rearrange that if you wish.  This removes the need for centralised 
> control of branch naming (policy branches) - it is all just local.

I like the idea of local branch namespaces.  How do they implement it? 
Just use like the sha1 hash of various things as the true branch name 
and then map that to a texual name locally?

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Matthew Nicholson
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