Re: [Monotone-devel] newbie question - SHA1 vs serials

2005-04-21 Thread Jon Bright
K. Richard Pixley wrote: I think this is a weakness. In the same way that I want to be able to authorize changes using a more common authentication mechanism, I also want to be able to state and apply authorization mechanisms on a per-branch basis. Actually, it should really be possible to do

Re: [Monotone-devel] newbie question - SHA1 vs serials

2005-04-20 Thread K. Richard Pixley
Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:39:41 -0700, K. Richard Pixley [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This sounds like the beginning of a complete redesign of the monotone authentication mechanism. I assume there's space for user authentication and

Re: [Monotone-devel] newbie question - SHA1 vs serials

2005-04-20 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:30:11 -0700, K. Richard Pixley [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: rich Thanks. That's exactly what I've been trying to guage - how rich close, how much work, how much time, etc. My current client may rich be willing to accept some modest level of

Re: [Monotone-devel] newbie question - SHA1 vs serials

2005-04-20 Thread K. Richard Pixley
Emile Snyder wrote: Can you clarify at all what sort of support an SCM could give you to let you have 128 concurrent developers on one branch all churning a given file? I wasn't necessarily thinking of them on the same branch. Emile Snyder wrote: These all seem like nice things,

[Monotone-devel] newbie question - SHA1 vs serials

2005-04-19 Thread K. Richard Pixley
Just reading the manual yesterday and the obvious question came to mind. Why SHA1 instead of serials? The manual suggested that any reasonable alternative be offered. So here it is. The obvious alternative in my mind is a serial number. I understand that there's a problem in trying to provide

Re: [Monotone-devel] newbie question - SHA1 vs serials

2005-04-19 Thread Timothy Brownawell
On 4/19/05, K. Richard Pixley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon Bright wrote: Hi, Hey. :-). To provide globally unique serials, one would need to include some representation of the location at which an event occurred. It's an idea that's been considered, but has a number of

Re: [Monotone-devel] newbie question - SHA1 vs serials

2005-04-19 Thread K. Richard Pixley
Timothy Brownawell wrote: This is why I suggested that the repository be named. Presumably, the name would be based on domain name, but the real point is that domain names follow hierarchical delegation. But how is this enforced? The same way monotone currently enforces

Re: [Monotone-devel] newbie question - SHA1 vs serials

2005-04-19 Thread K. Richard Pixley
Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: rich *Conclusion:* using /serial:repostory-name/ would probably rich require some level of security on a repository basis. Another conclusion is that your digging yourself into security-related problems that aren't needed in the first place. That's certainly

Re: [Monotone-devel] newbie question - SHA1 vs serials

2005-04-19 Thread Matt Johnston
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:56:32AM -0700, K. Richard Pixley wrote: Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: Nope, and that's not interesting. Every revision carries along the key identity of the committer, however. That's probably more interesting than the particular host the revision came from.