Re: [Arx-users] Hashes for revisions

[Kevin Smith]

Walter Landry wrote:
> Kevin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>>If you bounced back and forth between laptop and desktop, and did lots
>>of work between each bounce, you might have dozens of higher revision
>>numbers in one head than the other. Would that be a "large number"? Or
>>are we talking hundreds or thousands before it becomes a legitimate problem?
> 
> My guess is about a hundred, but that is really a guess.  We really
> have to implement it to find out.
> 
> Writing meta files is tricky, because you can update the revision
> without updating the meta file.

True.

So if I understand your original problem statement (the desktop/laptop
case), we're really trying to detect and identify different heads that
were created on different computers, within the same branch.

We have one conceptual archive, but two actual copies. One is an ArX
mirror of the other. Or are they each mirrors of each other? In some
cases, might one be an scp exact copy of the other?

Maybe we could assign each local tree a UUID, and always append the UUID
to the revision ID when you do a commit.

Kevin