[Monotone-devel] Re: One person in many places

[graydon hoare]

In gmane.comp.version-control.monotone.devel, you wrote:

> (personally, I wouldn't have made monotone depend on the keyid, but
> hey, I'm not the original author)

this is a bit of a tradeoff. on the one hand, using the key hashes
means you can probably rename keys and at very least put up with
conflicting names. on the other hand, from a UI perspective it means
users have to use yet-more hashes when they prefer to use email
addresses (and those addresses are somewhat mentally associated with
people, over time). it's a bit like the question of whether to use
stable names for branches, or GUIDs.

-graydon