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

[Bruce Stephens]

Andy Jones <address@hidden> writes:

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> I don't think Monotone +can+ have incremental revisions, can it?  I
> mean, suppose you and I both start by pulling revision 1.1 and then
> make a change.  Don't we both get a different revision called 1.2?

It can have local incremental revisions, so for a specific database at
a specific time, it can enumerate the DAG and produce a numbering (a
numbering with useful meaning).  I think it could be made a stable
enumeration, too (so a 2.7.1 revision in a particular database will
always be 2.7.1).  

I'm not sure whether that's useful enough to be worth doing (it still
can't be global), but if someone coded it, I think it would be worth
playing with, just to see.