[Monotone-devel] Re: One person in many places

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:55:20 -0700, graydon hoare 
<address@hidden> said:

graydon> In gmane.comp.version-control.monotone.devel, you wrote:
graydon> 
graydon> > (personally, I wouldn't have made monotone depend on the
graydon> > keyid, but hey, I'm not the original author)
graydon> 
graydon> this is a bit of a tradeoff. on the one hand, using the key
graydon> hashes means you can probably rename keys and at very least
graydon> put up with conflicting names. on the other hand, from a UI
graydon> perspective it means users have to use yet-more hashes when
graydon> they prefer to use email addresses (and those addresses are
graydon> somewhat mentally associated with people, over time). it's a
graydon> bit like the question of whether to use stable names for
graydon> branches, or GUIDs.

Nonsense.  All you need to require is that each *private* key has a
unique keyid.  And honestly, who would want to have two private keys
with the same keyid in the same database?

Also, there was talk about a future where private keys wouldn't be
stored in the database at all, which makes absolute sense, and makes
the UI perspective even less of an issue, or so I imagine.

Cheers,
Richard

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