[Monotone-devel] Some thoughts on ids

[jcrisp]

It occurred to me that to the end user there is little difference between the 
cryptographic IDs used by monotone and the 'guid' type IDs used by clearcase 
for the underlying representation in the clearcase repository.
 
Obviously there is a derivation difference in that the clearcase IDs are 
generated by the database and are not tied to the contents of the files. The 
reason why this may be important is that it may be worth looking at the 
clearcase command set and seeing if there are any things it does which are 
useful in terms of hiding the underlying ID from the end user. The quick and 
dirty completion stuff monotone already has looks dangerous to me....
 
Cydergoth