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

[Timothy Brownawell]

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 08:48 +0100, Andy Jones wrote:
> > If you're
> > working, for instance, in a console or terminal-based session and do
> > not have access to a mouse, consider using the application screen(1).
> > You can perform a copy-and-paste operation using a few meta-key
> > combinations and key navigation similar to vi.
> 
> Please forgive me if this seems a rude response,

Seems like a perfectly sensible response to me. :)

>  but why should I
> change my working practices simply to prove your point?  I'm
> comfortable with my current way of working.  Besides which, I repeat:
> one of my use cases is making a +note+ of revision IDs (or the first n
> characters of same).  On paper, yes?
> 
> > It really
> > is just a visual representation that might make patterns easier to
> > recognize, but beyond that functionality, I don't see any reason for
> > it.
> 
> But that was exactly the reason I (and others) suggested it.  I would
> certainly hope that it had no other effect on Monotone than to make
> the Revision ID more readable.  That was rather the point.

Hmm... what about putting a dash or something one digit after the
shortest it can be truncated to and stay unique? So if you had
abcde123ff3... and abcdf42785d..., they would be abcde1-23ff3... and
abcdf4-2785d... .

Tim