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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs
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Andy Jones |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs |
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Tue, 6 Sep 2005 14:32:52 +0100 |
> OK, how about this as an implementation: you add a lua hook that's
> used when printing a revision id. It could take a hash as an
> argument, containing the revision and all certs that apply to that
> revision (or something similar). Then change the code to use that
> hook, and add an option so that users can turn it off (to get the full
> hash). Obviously the default would be to display the revision id.
>
> Then people can experiment with truncated hashes, nicknames, and all
> sorts of things
I think that's astonishingly sensible.
There must be +some+ algorythm that would convert a revision hash to
something more memorable (pronouncable?). This way we get to skin the
cat as many different ways as we like.
> (provided they can be constructed from the certs on
> that one revision, so that limits things a bit).
I can't see where that would limit you much.
Andy.
- [Monotone-devel] Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Thomas Haas, 2005/09/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/09/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Bruce Stephens, 2005/09/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/09/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Andy Jones, 2005/09/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Julio M. Merino Vidal, 2005/09/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Bruce Stephens, 2005/09/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Andy Jones, 2005/09/06
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Bruce Stephens, 2005/09/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs,
Andy Jones <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Andy Jones, 2005/09/06
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Bruce Stephens, 2005/09/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Andy Jones, 2005/09/06
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Bruce Stephens, 2005/09/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Hendrik Boom, 2005/09/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Andy Jones, 2005/09/07
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Bruce Stephens, 2005/09/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Zbynek Winkler, 2005/09/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Andy Jones, 2005/09/06
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs, Bruce Stephens, 2005/09/06