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

[Thomas Haas]

Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 10:36:28AM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> 
>>Thomas Haas <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>
>>>Using the alphabet (A-Z, a-z) and the ten digits would reduce the
>>>real estate from 40 to 27 characters.
>>
>>That would be shorter, but would it be any more readable?
> 
> 
> Only if you avoid using letters and digits that look like each other.
> No 'O' 'o' 'l', for example.
> 
> -- hendrik
> 


Right, ambiguous characters such as 0, O, I, l, and 1 would need to be
removed or replaced by (shell-friendly) special characters.

- tom