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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction
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Timothy Brownawell |
Subject: |
Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction |
Date: |
Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:00:46 -0500 |
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 01:05 -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On 9/7/06, Timothy Brownawell <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 22:18 -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> > > For pretty much any
> > > operation, we need to know what trust seed to use, up-front -- this is
> > > dramatically simplified if there is only ever one trust seed to choose
> > > from. And one database per project already seems to be the best
> > > practice anyway; I don't generally feel guilty about encouraging
> > > people to use best practices.
> >
> > I'd think that that would make things like using merge_into_dir across
> > projects (like if upstream for botan or lua or sqlite was in mtn) a bit
> > of a pain.
>
> Seems like what is really wanted there is a cross-database merge,
> where you declare some mapping between trust in the upstream database
> and trust in yours (I think the security literature calls this
> "federation") and use that to copy across the bits you want. I'd
> think this would be easier in monotone than in many other systems due
> to the content addressing...
er, so monotone would have to learn to work with multiple databases,
now?
Tim
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- [Monotone-devel] Re: [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction, (continued)
[Monotone-devel] Re: [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction, Graydon Hoare, 2006/09/07
Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction, Nathaniel Smith, 2006/09/08
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction, Daniel Carosone, 2006/09/08
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction, Timothy Brownawell, 2006/09/08
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction, Zack Weinberg, 2006/09/08
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction,
Timothy Brownawell <=
- [Monotone-devel] Re: [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction, Koen Kooi, 2006/09/08
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction, Timothy Brownawell, 2006/09/08
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction, Zack Weinberg, 2006/09/08
[Monotone-devel] Re: [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction, Bruce Stephens, 2006/09/08
Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction, Timothy Brownawell, 2006/09/08
Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction, Nathaniel Smith, 2006/09/09
Re: [Monotone-devel] [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction, Timothy Brownawell, 2006/09/08
[Monotone-devel] Re: [RFC] versioned policy -- introduction, Wim Oudshoorn, 2006/09/09