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

[Bruce Stephens]

Hendrik Boom <address@hidden> writes:

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> Only if you avoid using letters and digits that look like each other.
> No 'O' 'o' 'l', for example.

Well, that would certainly help.  I remain a bit sceptical that a 27
arbitrary character sequence composed of upper and lower letters and
digits (excluding a few) would actually be more readable (in any
useful way) than a 40 digit sequence of hex digits.

It would be shorter, and I can see that being an advantage.  As
Nathaniel suggests, truncating the hash might be good enough?