On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Ville M. Vainio <[email protected]> wrote:
> Now that the "short sentinel" idea is sort of dead, perhaps it could
> be resurrected by "sentinel compression"? New sentinels would *always*
> be of the current kind, but old sentinels would be short (single
> running base64 index, without table).

Iirc, this would not greatly reduce the length of gnx's, and it would
certainly make them less informative.

tiny urls rely on a central server to make them compact, I think.  We
don't have such a thing.

The fundamental problem is that clones must have a global, immutable,
identity.  The present gnx scheme guarantees this without a central
server.  At present I don't see bzr assuming the role of a central
server to ensure that newly-created nodes get a unique, preferably
short, identity.

Edward

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