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

[Hendrik Boom]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:53:30PM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> Andy Jones <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > 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).  

And if you had it traverse the database each tome you wanted
these numbers, and someday you decided to assign an explicit local name
"corundrum" to revision 2.7, henceforth, revision 2.7.1 could become
known as "corundrum.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.
> 
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