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

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:17:40PM +0200, Oren Ben-Kiki wrote:
> There *is* a way for having stable, readable, consistent distributed 
> revision ids, by using CVS-like fork numbers and using the author's 
> name as the fork's id:
> 
>             /-> 4.bruce.1 -> 4.bruce.2 (fork by bruce)
>            /
> 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> 5 (main trunk)
>      |\
>      | \-> 3.richard-1.1 -> 3.richard-1.2 (fork by richard)
>       \
>        \-> 3.richard-2.1 (another fork by richard)
> 
> (This is all within a single branch, of course.)

The assumption is that a given user can be trusted to provide the
unique microbranch identities for her own microbranches?

What happens when I do some hacking on my laptop and some hacking on
my desktop, and we don't assume that I'm a Perfect Person that always
remembers to sync before taking the laptop on the bus? (A very real
example...)

-- Nathaniel

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