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[Monotone-devel] Re: user friendly revision identifies
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Emile Snyder |
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[Monotone-devel] Re: user friendly revision identifies |
Date: |
03 Dec 2004 15:51:01 -0800 |
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 14:44, graydon hoare wrote:
> I guess there's a fundamental issue here I don't address enough: from my
> perspective, bugs in implementation are *the most prevalent* form of
> failure this system has to put up with, so when someone discusses a
> scheme involving any form of external identifiers (rather than hashes)
I didn't mean to suggest that monotone should stop using hashes as the
identifiers internally; I think that's a great design. I was thinking
more of another type of selector I guess, and didn't use the right
terminology. But I see now the issue with trying to uniquely specify a
database.
> my first thought is to consider how much more (or less) code will be
> involved. usually it's more: code to manage extra tables and extra
> relationships between these tables and existing ones. the code to
> implement hashing is actually quite small and easily tested.
Less code is always better ;) But obviously we have to have some code,
so I guess it's just the question of what's useful enough to be worth
the weight. So far, as I've been playing with using monotone I've had a
hard time with some of the less desirable features of hashes as user
interface objects. But I probably haven't given myself enough time to
adjust from a CVS mindset, or to get used to the existing selectors.
thanks,
-emile
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response is to frantically swap in new counters to see if that fixes the
problem. -- Peter Gutmann
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- [Monotone-devel] Re: Few remarks, Bruce Stephens, 2004/12/01
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- [Monotone-devel] Re: Few remarks, Bruce Stephens, 2004/12/02
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Few remarks, graydon hoare, 2004/12/02
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Few remarks, Derek Scherger, 2004/12/02
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- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user friendly revision identifies (was: Re: few remarks), Emile Snyder, 2004/12/03
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- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux, Nathaniel Smith, 2004/12/04
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