On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 05:26:27PM +0100, Declan Naughton wrote: > Why can't checksumming the context produce a suitable identifier, I > must ask? What are the uses in it being "universally unique" that we > would miss out on, anyhow? We can still seek through the repository > history and get specific revisions?
The checksum of a context wouldn't allow us to determine what context it describes, since the number of possible contexts we'd need to try goes as N!, where N is the number of patches in the repository. I think that'd be a bit too expensive. Best to just include the entire context. -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
