[Monotone-devel] Re: Few remarks

[Bruce Stephens]

Henrik Holmboe <address@hidden> writes:

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> With that said, one thing that comes to my mind to uniquely identify
> a commit is to use seconds since 00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTC, and the
> user who commited the changeset. It could look something like
> "address@hidden:1102092772". It would be unique and still be
> incrementing (hopefully, or else time would be grinding to a halt).

It wouldn't necessarily be incrementing, since different computers
don't necessarily have the same idea of what the time is.  (It would
presumably be increasing on each computer.)  Also, I'm not sure
whether this (on its own) is actually useful: CVS version numbers are
nice because they show adjacency and things, I think, so if I've got
3.7 then the previous version is probably 3.6.  Also if I've got 3.7,
then 1.49.2.2 is a different branch.

I agree that times and authors are nice things to be able to select
on, but that's already possible,
<http://www.venge.net/monotone/docs/Selectors.html#Selectors>.

> Just reminded myself that it might not be portable to Windows. Anyone?

Should be fine on Windows.  I guess Windows machines are a bit less
likely to be synchronised, since NTP configuration is a bit less
obvious.