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

[Thomas Haas]

Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:00:02PM +0200, Thomas Haas wrote:
> 
> 
>>I tried to describe my problem in my answer to Nathaniel. Short:
>>Selectors do only work for revisions, not for other things, such as
>>manifests and files. And, I find 40 byte hex strings hard to compare,
>>match, and generally process.
>>
> 
> 
> Putting spaces or other punctuation in the hash might help.
> Say, after every eight characters?  Or as the crypto people used
> to do, after every five?  Or an irregular pattern, to keep you eyes
> from getting lost, like
> 
>   xxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxx xx-xx xxxxxxxxxx xx-xx xx
> 
> -- hendrik

I believe such formatting could help readability, while using even more
real estate from the screen... But, formatting might still be better
than the why ids are displayed today.

Regards
- tom