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

[Hendrik Boom]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:00:02PM +0200, Thomas Haas wrote:

> I tried to describe my problem in my answer to Nathaniel. Short:
> Selectors do only work for revisions, not for other things, such as
> manifests and files. And, I find 40 byte hex strings hard to compare,
> match, and generally process.
> 

Putting spaces or other punctuation in the hash might help.
Say, after every eight characters?  Or as the crypto people used
to do, after every five?  Or an irregular pattern, to keep you eyes
from getting lost, like

  xxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxx xx-xx xxxxxxxxxx xx-xx xx

-- hendrik