Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Branch naming conventions

[Nathan Myers]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 10:37:03AM +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> 
> ncm> > There are X.500 distinguished names.  
> ncm> 
> ncm> Very funny.  We all know no one has ever actually read X.500,
> 
> *ahem* perhaps you should be a little bit more humble in your
> statements.  I've read X.500.

What, do we need to put smileys in our postings, even here?  Hmph.
Anyway, according to my previous statement, you don't exist, so 
who am I to be humble for?  (:-), sigh.)

Big-endian naming schemes are, like little-endian ones, extremely 
common.  The point is simply that one is not more "natural" than 
the other.  Enough said.  I quite like the idea of URI notation.
If colons, and the empty string, are allowed in name components,
then users may add "mt://" or not, according to their taste.

If you like complicated, then "foo.bar.baz.bim" might be treated 
as equivalent to "bim/bar.baz/foo", "baz.bim/foo.bar", 
"bim/baz/bar/foo", etc.   More to the point, "net/venge/monotone" 
and "monotone.venge.net" might be equivalent.

Nathan Myers
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