Hello Max Battcher -- I'm sorry that I didn't see this letter that you wrote to me on darcs-users on 2008-08-12.
On Aug 12, 2008, at 21:32 PM, Max Battcher wrote: > Just out of curiosity, does he know about context files? If so > does he > not find them sufficient? Yes he does. He uses them occasionally on the command-line, but more- over he wrote darcs support in buildbot which uses context files in places where other revision control tools use sequence numbers or secure hashes. He is dissatisfied with them because they aren't short and because they aren't secure. I actually sort of disagree with him on that latter point, or more nuancedly I suspect that the vaunted secure-hash-based integrity checks in monotone, git, et al., which Brian wishes to have in his revision control tool, are actually insufficient to provide the kind of security that we need, but I won't explain more about that in this letter. > I still think that right now the best documentation on context > files is > my own blog post: By the way, way to go on adding more documentation to darcs! Please keep up your practice of converting your blog posts into wiki or manual pages. Regards, Zooko --- http://allmydata.org -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem http://allmydata.com -- back up all your files for $5/month _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
