In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 19 Apr 2005 07:40:06 -0700, "K. Richard Pixley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
rich> Why SHA1 instead of serials? You came to the answer yourself :-) (globally unique, or at least close enough). rich> To provide globally unique serials, one would need to include rich> some representation of the location at which an event occurred. rich> In this case, I'd suggest the domain name of the machine rich> involved. So something like 1:monotone.venge.com, rich> 2:monotone.venge.com, etc. If each repository used it's own rich> name, (presumably it's domain name in most cases), and kept it's rich> own list of serials, wouldn't this both provide a guaranteed rich> unique id ? I assume you've understood that it's really one repository per development machine, right? The database is basically replicated all over the place. So a domain name (as opposed to host name) may not be enough, and in some cases, maybe not even a FQDN. We might end up with n:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or something like that. Then the question is, what happens when someone changes email address and wants all those serials to refer to the new email address (because for sure, others will use the email address part of the serial number to communicate with the author of that particular revision)? rich> as well as providing that oh-so-sought-after monotonically rich> increasing number people so love to see Quite honestly, I don't believe the love for those monotonically increasing numbers is that strong. I thought so too when I started using monotone, but I find that the unique features in monotone strongly overweigh the increasingly small pain of dealing with SHA-1 checksums. ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
