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Re: [Monotone-devel] beginner questions
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Nico -telmich- Schottelius |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] beginner questions |
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Sat, 29 May 2004 21:44:27 +0200 |
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge [Fri, May 28, 2004 at 05:15:38PM -0700]:
> [versioning: sha1 vs. something else]
> This is true, but Zbigniew's question is a good one - the SHA1 hashes
> are a big pain to use, and will be forever turning people off.
I don't really think so. The only useful thing I say is
calling a specific hash a version, for releases.
9283d... is then monotone-0.13 for instance.
> I know
> why they're there and what they're for, but I don't like to use them,
> even in abbreviated form. The fact that they convey no information
> about the files and versions to me, the user, makes them very hard to
> work with - I can't easily remember that df2834* is the version before
> 9283d* and after 1238b* without noting it to myself explicitly, whereas
> it's implicit in 1.2, 1.3 and 1.1. When I'm doing merges and so on, I
> have usually enough mental state to keep track of without this added
> complication.
I don't really think that makes sense.
Although working with numbers may be a bit easier for people,
everybody who understood the way monotone works will see that
identifying by hash makes most sense.
> They are, of course, fundamental to Monotone's operation, but couldn't
> Monotone generate simple version numbers for local use?
Imho this would make much more complicated and confuse people.
If there is really a problem with using sha1-hashes as identification
than we have a documentation problem.
Nico
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- [Monotone-devel] beginner questions, Zbigniew Zagórski, 2004/05/27
- Re: [Monotone-devel] beginner questions, Nathaniel Smith, 2004/05/28
- Re: [Monotone-devel] beginner questions, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, 2004/05/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] beginner questions,
Nico -telmich- Schottelius <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] beginner questions, joel reed, 2004/05/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] beginner questions, Adam Logghe, 2004/05/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] beginner questions, Jon Bright, 2004/05/30
- [Monotone-devel] Re: beginner questions, graydon hoare, 2004/05/30
- Re: [Monotone-devel] beginner questions, Adam Logghe, 2004/05/30
Re: [Monotone-devel] beginner questions, Christof Petig, 2004/05/28