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

[Andy Jones]

> OK, how about this as an implementation: you add a lua hook that's
> used when printing a revision id.  It could take a hash as an
> argument, containing the revision and all certs that apply to that
> revision (or something similar).  Then change the code to use that
> hook, and add an option so that users can turn it off (to get the full
> hash).  Obviously the default would be to display the revision id.
> 
> Then people can experiment with truncated hashes, nicknames, and all 
> sorts of things

I think that's astonishingly sensible. 

There must be +some+ algorythm that would convert a revision hash to
something more memorable (pronouncable?).  This way we get to skin the
cat as many different ways as we like.

> (provided they can be constructed from the certs on
> that one revision, so that limits things a bit).

I can't see where that would limit you much.

Andy.