Re: [Monotone-devel] beginner questions

[joel reed]

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 05:15:38PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > Because of the "distributed" part of being a "distributed version
> > control system".  Say we're using CVSy revision numbers, and we both
> > check out version 1.1, and make some changes, and commit to our
> > separate databases.  There's no way for either of us to know about the
> > other, so presumably we both end up versions named "1.2", except the
> > actual data in them is different.  This is already confusing. 
> 
> This is true, but Zbigniew's question is a good one - the SHA1 hashes
> are a big pain to use, and will be forever turning people off.  I know
> why they're there and what they're for, but I don't like to use them,
> even in abbreviated form.

i would like to add my 2 cents to Jeremy's complaint - this is really
the only major turn off for me as well. i like monotone a lot but am
highly concerned with the _usability_ of SHA1 hashes.

jr