Re: Lifetime of revision identifiers

2012-04-02 Thread Stefan Guggisberg
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, The revision identifiers returned by methods like MicroKernel.getHeadRevision() are plain strings so in theory I could write one down on a piece of paper, lock it in a safe, and come back ten years later

Re: Lifetime of revision identifiers

2012-04-02 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Stefan Guggisberg stefan.guggisb...@gmail.com wrote: i don't think that we should allow clients to explicitly extend the life span of a specific revision. this would IMO unnecessarily complicate the GC logic and it would allow misbehaved clients to