Re: [Monotone-devel] More authentication questions

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 09:44:30AM -0700, K. Richard Pixley wrote:
>    And if there is no branch cert?  Or does everything have some branch cert?

As a general rule, everything has some branch cert.  OTOH, monotone
treats "has no branch cert" and "has an untrusted branch cert"
identically.  Basically, a branch cert is a "merge obligation" (or
really more of a "merge suggestion"), and "trust a revision" means "I
think I should merge it".  So, trust is always defined relative to a
branch.  It would make perfect sense, for instance, to trust
everything that one developer does for inclusion in a pre-review
branch, but not a mainline branch.

-- Nathaniel

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