Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Few remarks

[Derek Scherger]

graydon hoare wrote:
> one stable numbering scheme which posesses the property you want (N+K is 
> a child of N) would be to number the immediate children of *each* 
> revision by the order they arrive in your database: consider the "first" 
> child of N as N+1, and use a .fork.seq format for the remaining children 
> a la CVS.
>
>   first child: N+1
>   second child: N.1.1
>   third child: N.2.1

I wonder whether the length of the edge from it's root would be a 
reasonable facsimilie of a version number? I suppose forks would need a 
a.b.c type of notation and may introduce instability in the numbers though.

Cheers,
Derek