Re: [Monotone-devel] Thoughts about 'testresult'...

[Emile Snyder]

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 00:55, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
...snip...
> I'm proposing to change that behavior by making things more explicit.
> Instead of getting implicitely stuck on revisions with true testresult
> certs, there should be a way to explicitely ask to get only those.  As
> fat as I can tell, the simplest way would be with another selector.
> Since we're talking about results, I propose 'r', with the following
> format:
> 
>   r:keyid

So, what commands would use this, and how would the final behavior
differ?  Does update now never update you to a rev with a true testcert
*unless* you give it this selector?  That seems counter-intuitive in the
other direction.

> keyid would simply be the key with which the testresult cert has been
> signed, since that key is supposed to represent the test that has been
> successfully performed.
> 
> Comments?  Is this a completely wacky idea, or would people like this
> (I would, most obviously)?

r: makes me thing revision, is t: taken?

thanks,
-emile

> Cheers,
> Richard
> 
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