Re: [Monotone-devel] Proposal for human readable revision IDs

[Julio M. Merino Vidal]

On 9/6/05, Andy Jones <address@hidden> wrote:
> How about the option to give a revision a "nickname"?  You might not
> want to do this for all revisions you commit, but you might for the
> ones you wanted others to pull.
> 
> Seems to me that this is just a 'nickname' certificate, which would be
> shown in moontone's normal completion, ls, status output if it existed
> instead of (as well as?) the revision hash.
> 
> Just my 10c, and I'm a Monotone newbie, so if I've said something stupid...

You can do this at the moment.  What you propose is the same as tags,
natively supported by Monotone.  Anyway, if tags didn't exist, you'd still
easily implement it by creating a new certificate using:

    monotone cert <revid> nickname foobar

And then using 'c:nickname=foobar' as the revision selector.

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