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Re: [Monotone-devel] Keyword substitution?
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Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Keyword substitution? |
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Sat, 30 Jul 2005 01:48:45 +0200 (CEST) |
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?
Cheers,
Richard
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- Re: [Monotone-devel] Keyword substitution?, (continued)
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Keyword substitution?, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2005/07/27
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Keyword substitution?, Florian Weimer, 2005/07/27
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Keyword substitution?, Todd A. Jacobs, 2005/07/27
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Keyword substitution?, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2005/07/27
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Keyword substitution?, Hendrik Boom, 2005/07/27
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Keyword substitution?, Brian Campbell, 2005/07/27
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Keyword substitution?, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2005/07/27
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Keyword substitution?, Bruce Stephens, 2005/07/27
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Keyword substitution?, Hendrik Boom, 2005/07/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Keyword substitution?,
Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Keyword substitution?, Hendrik Boom, 2005/07/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Keyword substitution?, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/07/29