[Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs

[Bruce Stephens]

Andy Jones <address@hidden> writes:

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>> (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.

You might want something that reflected history or structure.  For
example, if you had a branch foo, you might want the first revision to
be called foo.0, then foo.1, etc., with some way to handle forks and
things.  Of course that kind of naming might change as you sync with
other repositories, and it's certainly a local rather than global
naming, but it might still be useful.