[Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux

[graydon hoare]

Nathan Myers wrote:

> It's a little bit longer than the hex, but not badly so.  Of course 
> Monotone could parse it ignoring case, or enforce placement of any 
> caps it sees.  The wordiness offers useful redundancy, too.  Four 
> words gives you forty bits, extremely unlikely to collide, yet are 
> easier to recall (or say) than six hex digits that yield only 24 
> bits.  Although the choice of formats could be a command-line or 
> configuration option, I don't see any real reason to retain the hex 
> format.

there's actually an old branch njs put together to do this with a format 
called "bibblebabble".. the idea keeps coming up, but I've never really 
felt it helped much. it adds another way of referring to things, and it 
doesn't bring you any improvement in order or meaning, just helps with 
rememberability. I don't know how much we need to remember them, rather 
than just enter them, and copy-and-paste works just as well with either.

-graydon