Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: random thought on peg restrictions

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 09:11:39PM -0700, Derek Scherger wrote:
> Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> >And the sort of functionality required to code this -- keeping names
> >around, instead of just going straight to node ids -- seems
> >interestingly close to the wartish part of the node-id-based
> >restrictions code, where it needs to do something similar to deal with
> >unversioned items?
> 
> True enough. So are you suggesting that this makes that particular wart 
> look a little less ugly or somehow justifies it or are you thinking that 
> we don't want to use node id based restrictions at all?

Umm, the former, I guess.  "log <filename>" should certainly be able
to follow renames.  But sometimes a more general solution is actually
easier somehow than a more particular solution.

> >I have no idea whether this goes anywhere, it was just a random
> >thought before bed, so I thought I'd jot it down for future reference,
> >and in case it sparked anything down the line :-).
> 
> Along the same lines, I was doing a perforce sync (aka update) to a 
> particular revision of some file the other day. The syntax for this is 
> something like:
> 
>       $ p4 sync //depot/path/to/file#version
> 
> and as I typed that I wondered whether I was about to get the version I 
> hoped for or whether '#version' would be stripped off as a comment. 
> Interestingly, it seems that #foo is not considered a comment (by bash 
> at least) if some non-whitespace character immediately preceeds it. What 
> I mean is:
> 
>       $ echo foo #bar
>       foo
>       $ echo foo#bar
>       foo#bar
> 
> which struck me as a bit odd but possibly convenient. It does seems a 
> bit nasty though and I don't know if this is specified or standard 
> behaviour. Perforce has various "special" version numbers like #none, 
> #head, #have among others which all seem to rely on this quirk to some 
> degree.

Exciting.  It just makes me think of:  http://venge.net ;-)

-- Nathaniel

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