On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 18:34:45 -0500 "Edward K. Ream" <edream...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 5:51 PM, SegundoBob <segundo...@gmail.com> > wrote: So - does the fact that Edward and my responses to Bob "clashed" time wise (i.e. were made in parallel not sequentially) illustrate the problem :-) I guess not :) Cheers -Terry > > I see the appeal of "current time," but making this switch almost > > certainly requires losing the benefit of minimizing the node index > > by only considering GNX's with the "session start time." > > Having the gnx reflect the actual creation time of the node should > have no effect on the size of gnxs, except to make them slightly > smaller, because ni.lastIndex would be zero for most *new* gnxs. > > > The change of time zone or daylight saving could cause times after > > the session start time to equal times in already existing GNX's. > > Good point. > > > Or do you want to do a complete scan to determine the minimum > > unused node index before every node creation that changes the time > > stamp? > > We aren't going to do that. I'm happy sticking with a session > timestamp. > > > New Topic: > > > > Early in this thread, you seemed concerned, once again, about one > > GNX being used in two different files. This should not concern you. > > It doesn't concern me *provided* that the id parts of two gnxs are > equal if and *only* if the same person actually created the two nodes! > > This is true in the example you give, but it need not be true. In > that case, the clashing gnx's *are* going to cause data loss if the > paste-retaining-clones command is used. Happily, the case is very > rare, as shown by the P1*P2*P3*P4 calculation. > > > For your benefit and the benefit of Leo-Editor users, you need to > > make this clearer in the Leo-Editor documentation. > > Yup. > > Edward > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
