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

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 12:21:16AM +0000, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> Or the previous pair.  So really it's more or less opaque, so I'm
> going to end up doing cut and paste to actually use it, aren't I?  (In
> which case hashes seem OK, too: they've got no whitespace or
> punctuation, so cut and paste works rather nicely.)

Umm... can anyone give an example, in any system, of what a revision
identifier that you _didn't_ end up doing cut and paste to use would
be?

For these purposes, assume that there's some mechanism so that you
don't need to do additional cut-and-pasting to refer to "parent of x"
or "child of x", etc., where x is a previously cut-and-pasted
identifier or the working directory.  (Basically, I just say this to
eliminate the case "I don't want to cut and paste to do a diff
against a parent revision", because we can make that part work without
any fancy non-SHA1 identifiers.)

-- Nathaniel

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