On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 06:51:48PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > There is no indirection in monotone's branch names; they're just
> > uninterpreted globally unique strings. We tend to still use a
> > central server that's the canonical place to go for that branch, but
> > that's just for convenience; the underlying design is peer-to-peer.
>
> I might be misunderstanding, but there still is some mapping between a
> branch name and ``where to find data for this branch''.
>
> The fact that you see none implies that the Monotone developers have
> been surprisingly successful at hiding this mapping. I guess it's
> time to look at Monotone again and steal some of their ideas ;-)
I'm not sure what you mean here. There is social convention
("venge.net:5253 is the server everyone working on branch
net.venge.monotone generally uses"), but no more. It's just
convenient to have a standard place to go to get the latest
development, nothing depends on it. (I think I might have mentioned
already how that server was down for a week, and it didn't affect us
at all? We just swapped stuff ad-hoc-ly, using whatever temp server
someone could put up for a few minutes as a broker.)
-- Nathaniel
--
"...these, like all words, have single, decontextualized meanings: everyone
knows what each of these words means, everyone knows what constitutes an
instance of each of their referents. Language is fixed. Meaning is
certain. Santa Claus comes down the chimney at midnight on December 24."
-- The Language War, Robin Lakoff
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