Re: [Monotone-devel] Keyword substitution?

[Hendrik Boom]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 01:48:45AM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> In message <address@hidden> on Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:35:26 -0400, Hendrik Boom 
> <address@hidden> said:
> 
> hendrik> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 10:47:41PM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS 
> Whacker wrote:
> hendrik> > If done on checkin, it will generate all kinds of problems.
> hendrik> > First of all, since the revision has a hash of the
> hendrik> > manifest, which has a hash of the file, changing the file
> hendrik> > will change the hash of the file, which will change the
> hendrik> > manifest, which will change the hash of the manifest, which
> hendrik> > will change the revision, which will change the revision
> hendrik> > hash (ID), so you need to change that in the file...  Now,
> hendrik> > let's all sing:  o/~ Neverending sto-ory... o/~
> hendrik> 
> hendrik> I was thinking of revision numbers for external consumption --
> hendrik> you know, the ones that look like 5.7.-2a-sarge4.6 and such.
> hendrik> These would be chosen by the programmer or release manager,
> hendrik> not computed as a hash, not generated by monotone.
> hendrik> As such, there would be no need to compute a fixed-point
> hendrik> for a hash function.
> 
> Hmm, wait, are you thinking of some kind of specific cert that would
> be used for this, or tags, or what?

I suppose it could be.

-- hendrik