[Monotone-devel] Re: monotone.ca can now be used as a server

[Graydon Hoare]

Richard Levitte wrote:

> Actually, the reason that key IDs must be unique is that the table
> that stores them is indexed by, you guessed it, unique key IDs.  To
> this day, I still can't understand that decision, it has created more
> problems than it has solved, as far as I can see.  The key table
> SHOULD (in my opinion) be indexed by key fingerprint or something like
> that.  But then, I come from the PKI world, where this is common
> sense...

It's a bug. A very old bug I have deferred fixing for ... 4 years. 
Something else always took priority.

(it's one of those corners of the program that was laid down as "oh, at 
a first pass we can do the easier thing and come back to fix it later". 
I couldn't figure out the right UI for multiple-keys / same-name, so I 
just decided to ban it initially. Bad plan. I really should have started 
with SPKI. But then, I also should have selected mercurial's tip / local 
revid nomenclature, and git's tag strategy, and focused more on 
performance ... many things probably should have been done differently)

-graydon