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

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 09:22:04AM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> OK, but why give hints, why not show a selector?  You might show the
> above as
> 
> a:address@hidden/d:2005-09-01T05:44:38/b:branch.name/t:tag1
> 
> That's not so good for cut and paste (on Unix, anyway) since it's
> multiple words.  But it's better than the hints.

This would be trivial to add experimentally -- just add another line
to log output: "Selector: <string like that>".  I don't know if anyone
would use it, of course.

-- Nathaniel

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