[Monotone-devel] Re: interpretation of collection names

[graydon hoare]

On 29 Sep 2004 13:34:28 +0200, Peter Simons <address@hidden> wrote:

> But it's a convention that might be difficult do adhere to
> with that feature in place. Say, I own the domain "org.con",
> you own "org.contrived". So either I call my collection
> "org.con." or I end up having all your data in it, too! That
> doesn't sound good, IMHO.

no, I agree, it's a bug. collections themselves are probably
a bug.

> P. S.: While I am at it ... there was talk about getting rid
> of collections entirely and allowing branches to be selected
> for synchronization directly. Is there any plan as for when
> this change will happen?

I'd like this change to happen, but it'll be a little while in
coming. it's not actually very invasive if you want to look
into it yourself. there are a number of pending fixups to
netsync: symmetric encryption, adjustment of where and when the
tries are rebuilt, better reporting, dropping collections in
favour of branch globs, etc.

but all this, on my list, comes after finishing the changeset
branch, fixing up cr/lf issues on win32, and integrating the
ssh and restriction branches.

-graydon