Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Branch Naming

[Matthew A. Nicholson]

Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 19:09 +0100, Peter Simons wrote:
>
> > Matthew A Nicholson writes:
> >
> > > venge.net/monotone
> > > monotone.venge.net/ssh
> > > venge.net/monotone/ssh
> >
> > > Any comments?
> >
> > I too think that this scheme is more intuitive than the one
> > we have at the moment. One may or may not like URIs, but at
> > least everybody knows them. I think that's worth something.
> > If nothing else, Monotone should not restrict the way you
> > can name your branches, so that the user can decide himself
> > what he thinks is best.
>
>
> But if Monotone does not enforce a policy, the possibility of
> name clashes between branches and different repos increases.
> ATM, if everybody follows the guidelines, you could create a
> single database with copies of multiple repositories without
> problems, and it could be in a nice (IMHO) tree-form.

What I am suggesting is the names internally stay the same 
(com.name.branch.subbranch), but a new selector could be added that does this:

name.com/branch/subbranch

or com.name.branch --> name.com/branch.

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Matthew A. Nicholson
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