Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Future of monotone

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:40:56PM +0100, Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> Yeah, and that argument gets even stronger if you take imports or 
> pulling from foreign VCSes into account: you will have to pull in 
> commits, tags and branches, and certainly can't recycle the "cert" from 
> the source VCS (if here even is such a thing).
>
> Having distinct signer and authors for tags and branches makes sense in 
> those cases, IMO. Deferring that complexity to commit messages, which 
> then have to be parsed by third party tools strikes me as a rather bad 
> idea, taking flexibility from monotone.

If you need clean roundtripping, author fields are hardly your worst
problem.  You're going to need to add extra system-specific metadata
regardless, and hey, look at these nice user-extensible cert things...
:-).

-- Nathaniel

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