On Wednesday,2009-08-19, at 10:05 , Jack Lloyd wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 09:28:45AM -0600, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote: > >> [*] Linus Torvalds got the idea of a Cryptographic Hash Function >> Directed Acyclic Graph structure from an earlier distributed >> revision control tool named Monotone. > > OT trivia: The idea actually predates either monotone or git; > opencm (http://opencm.org/docs.html) was using a similiar technique > for VCS access control a year or two prior to monotone's first > release.
Note that I didn't say Monotone invented it. :-) Graydon Hoare of Monotone got the idea from a friend of his who, as far as we know, came up with it independently. I personally got it from Eric Hughes who came up with it independently. I think OpenCM got it from the Xanadu project who came up with it independently. :-) Regards, Zooko _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
