Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Certificates for files

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:37:45PM +0200, Daniel Vogelheim wrote:
> Hmm, could someone clarify for me: Does monotone already allow
> certificates for file contents/blobs?

No.  Historically, it did, but this feature was removed for the
reasons discussed in this thread.  It comes up because that's our
relevant experience in this area...

> The manual only seems to mention certs for revisions, so I was under
> the impression that it doesn't. Hence my suggestion to certify
> subtrees by creating pseudo-revisions and certifing those.

I _think_ you're much better off just coming up with some policy for
interpreting the contents of these certs as applying to only some
subtree.  Monotone will not store a cert that it doesn't have a
corresponding revision for, and it just seems like an over-complex way
to go about things...

-- Nathaniel

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