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Re: [Monotone-devel] The dark side of content addressing
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Bruce Stephens |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] The dark side of content addressing |
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Mon, 06 Mar 2006 20:11:58 +0000 |
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Jon Bright <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
> My intuition said that too - but then I remembered the big
> discussion about Graydon not liking GUIDs, back when we were
> originally discussing revisions. An alternative, which sticks with
> a kind of content-basedness, might be to take the hash of the branch
> name.
Or a timestamp, or use the key of the person creating the revision.
It doesn't really need to be 160 bits of entropy, I suspect---it's
just to disambiguate otherwise identical initial revisions, so one
could use something meaningful like a timestamp. That might cause
confusion, I guess.
[...]