Re: [Monotone-devel] Keyword substitution?

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 07:35:26PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I was thinking of revision numbers for external consumption --
> you know, the ones that look like 5.7.-2a-sarge4.6 and such.
> These would be chosen by the programmer or release manager,
> not computed as a hash, not generated by monotone.
> As such, there would be no need to compute a fixed-point
> for a hash function.

This seems like something completely outside monotone's scope; if
you're inserting project-specific data in a project-specific way,
monotone isn't going to be able to be any cleverer than some sed
script (or whatever) that you whip up... is there some advantage I'm
missing?

-- Nathaniel

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