[Monotone-devel] Re: Certificates for files

[Bruce Stephens]

Jon Bright <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> I can think of a couple of cases where the information's file
> based. Stuff like "has been reviewed for classified information", or
> "has been reviewed for third-party source" when doing an open
> release of a previously proprietary product.  Say you're porting
> your latest and greatest product to some new version of the
> language/compiler/whatever that you're using, you could also do some
> kind of "Java1.5ified" cert, letting you gradually work through your
> source tree and use the version control to keep track of which files
> you've done and which not.

Yes, both of those cases would be best done by marking the blob of
bytes, I guess.  I wonder if they're important enough to try and
revive per-file certs.