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

[Hendrik Boom]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:03:01PM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> Andy Jones <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > How about the option to give a revision a "nickname"?  You might not
> > want to do this for all revisions you commit, but you might for the
> > ones you wanted others to pull.
> >
> > Seems to me that this is just a 'nickname' certificate, which would
> > be shown in moontone's normal completion, ls, status output if it
> > existed instead of (as well as?) the revision hash.
> 
> Something like a tag, you mean?  Only I guess you'd want it to be
> unique (multiple revisions can have the same tag).  
> 
> Only what happens if two people independently give the same nickname
> to two different revisions, and then their repositories are synced?

Either you allow two revisions to have the same nickname,
or you disambiguate by appending or prefixing the name of
whoever assigned the nickname
or you refuse to allow the sync without an explicit resolution of the problem.
Or you complain about ambiguioty when the nickname is used.

-- hendrik