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

[Zack Weinberg]

Nathan Myers <address@hidden> writes:

> To me this is uncontroversial.  However, I see no merit at all in
> the hexadecimal presentation of hashes.  The only issue I see is that
> it is not instantly obvious what the best alternative to hex is.

I'm going to be horribly contrarian and say that I would rather see
hex than any of the so-far proposed alternatives.  Hex, I know what
that is, it's a big honking number.  I don't have intuitions about
what nonsense strings (of any of the proposed variants) mean.

zw