Re: [Monotone-devel] branch naming conventions

[Zbynek Winkler]

Nathaniel Smith wrote:

> The branch naming conventions debate came up on IRC again today:
>  
> http://colabti.de/irclogger/irclogger_log/monotone?date=2005-10-29,Sat&sel=19#l140
>
> So I made up a page for people to look at some options and gather some
> opinions...:
>  http://venge.net/monotone/wiki/BranchNamingConventions
>  
Ok, I have this in my head for some time so now may be a good time to 
get it out :-)

When everything has hash-based unique id why should branches be any 
different? Every database would maintain mapping between the unique ids 
and some human readable form (which could be anything - globaly unique 
or not). That would allow easy (local) renaming of branches while not 
forcing a naming convention.

Everything could stay the same only where now the branch name is would 
be the guid. Should the user want to use the guid, he/she could. But a 
database-local mapping could be created to assign names to the branches 
(not versioned). The ui code would map the names to the guids and back.

What do you think?

Zbynek

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