Nathaniel Smith wrote:
The branch naming conventions debate came up on IRC again today:
http://colabti.de/irclogger/irclogger_log/monotone?date=2005-10-29,Sat&sel=19#l140
So I made up a page for people to look at some options and gather some
opinions...:
http://venge.net/monotone/wiki/BranchNamingConventions
Ok, I have this in my head for some time so now may be a good time to
get it out :-)
When everything has hash-based unique id why should branches be any
different? Every database would maintain mapping between the unique ids
and some human readable form (which could be anything - globaly unique
or not). That would allow easy (local) renaming of branches while not
forcing a naming convention.
Everything could stay the same only where now the branch name is would
be the guid. Should the user want to use the guid, he/she could. But a
database-local mapping could be created to assign names to the branches
(not versioned). The ui code would map the names to the guids and back.
What do you think?
Zbynek
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