In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:35:26 -0400, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
hendrik> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 10:47:41PM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: hendrik> > If done on checkin, it will generate all kinds of problems. hendrik> > First of all, since the revision has a hash of the hendrik> > manifest, which has a hash of the file, changing the file hendrik> > will change the hash of the file, which will change the hendrik> > manifest, which will change the hash of the manifest, which hendrik> > will change the revision, which will change the revision hendrik> > hash (ID), so you need to change that in the file... Now, hendrik> > let's all sing: o/~ Neverending sto-ory... o/~ hendrik> hendrik> I was thinking of revision numbers for external consumption -- hendrik> you know, the ones that look like 5.7.-2a-sarge4.6 and such. hendrik> These would be chosen by the programmer or release manager, hendrik> not computed as a hash, not generated by monotone. hendrik> As such, there would be no need to compute a fixed-point hendrik> for a hash function. Hmm, wait, are you thinking of some kind of specific cert that would be used for this, or tags, or what? Cheers, Richard ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel