Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Branch naming conventions

[Brian P. Campbell]

I realize it's a little ugly, but one branch naming convention that 
would not have to reverse domain names and would be in a natural (big 
endian) order would be to use URIs to identify branches. This has the 
additional advantage that you don't have to tack stuff onto the domain 
namespace that don't really belong there; with the current scheme (and 
with Java's scheme), there's an issue if I am at foo.com, and name a 
collection com.foo.twiddle, with branch com.foo.twiddle.bar and then 
someone gets the domain com.foo.twiddle, and tries to use that for a 
collection named bar. I know this is somewhat contrived, but I think 
it's a valid concern. I agree that URIs are ugly, but they wouldn't be 
so bad if you could leave the scheme off.

For example:

venge.net/monotone
venge.net/monotone/changesets
venge.net/monotone/ssh
etc.

Or, with the scheme:

mt://venge.net/monotone
mt://venge.net/monotone/changesets
mt://venge.net/monotone/ssh