[Monotone-devel] Re: How will policy branches work?

[Bruce Stephens]

Markus Schiltknecht <address@hidden> writes:

> Bruce Stephens wrote:
>> Hmm.  So the manifest has a hash that points to something that says I
>> don't have permission to it (rather than to the text itself).  I guess
>> I can imagine that working.
>
> Uh.. the manifest has never included the text itself, AFAIR. And still
> today, the revision data references the file's contents by hash
> exclusively. So do the rosters.

I know, I meant that the thing referenced by the hash would not be the
real contents (it would be some special thing).

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