Re: [Monotone-devel] Merging branch to allow duplicate key names, have certs use key hash

[Stephen Leake]

Richard Levitte <address@hidden> writes:

> In message <address@hidden> on Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:37:08 -0500, Timothy 
> Brownawell <address@hidden> said:
>
> tbrownaw> On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 05:04 +0000, Timothy Brownawell wrote:
> tbrownaw> > I think branch net.venge.monotone.keys-by-hash is ready now.
> tbrownaw> > 
> tbrownaw> > The central change is that certs contain a key hash
> tbrownaw> > instead of a key name, to get rid of the problem with key
> tbrownaw> > collisions.
> tbrownaw> 
> tbrownaw> > This does require a netsync flag day, because certs on the
> tbrownaw> > wire contain a key hash instead of a key name now (just
> tbrownaw> > like certs in the db).
> tbrownaw> 
> tbrownaw> This is merged now.
>
> Cool!
>
> I wonder, what do you propose for a flag day for our repository?
> (and lets not forget to announce it clearly on http://monotone.ca/ and
> to make sure there's ample time for people to adapt, rebuild, yada
> yada yada)

One thing we need is an up to date Cygwin release. I think Lapo Luchini is
working on one, but the latest in the Cygwin repository is 0.42.

Lapo, can you check in your Cygwin package stuff? or notes on it? Can
I help? I have built mtn on Cygwin in the past, but not since the
libraries were split out.

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-- Stephe