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

[Bruce Stephens]

Andy Jones <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Something like a tag, you mean?  Only I guess you'd want it to be
unique (multiple revisions can have the same tag).  

Only what happens if two people independently give the same nickname
to two different revisions, and then their repositories are synced?

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