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

[Zbynek Winkler]

Bruce Stephens wrote:

> You might want something that reflected history or structure.  For
> example, if you had a branch foo, you might want the first revision to
> be called foo.0, then foo.1, etc., with some way to handle forks and
> things.  Of course that kind of naming might change as you sync with
> other repositories, and it's certainly a local rather than global
> naming, but it might still be useful.
>  
It's been a while since I was thinking about this but the solution that 
I would be probably happy with would be a generation number (within a 
branch). That would be a global identifier that would sometimes select a 
group of things but that could be handled by appending part of the hash.

I'd like to point out that I still think that the full hashes should be 
the "main" identifiers. The generation numbers would just be an UI 
thing. The revision could then be identified by i.e. 'branch-53-ab' 
which would be a 53rd generation in 'branch', hash starting with 'ab'.

Since the branch factor tends to be relatively small it could be 'global 
enough' for common day-to-day use.

Zbynek

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