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[Monotone-devel] Re: Certificates for files
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Bruce Stephens |
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[Monotone-devel] Re: Certificates for files |
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Fri, 09 Sep 2005 12:50:51 +0100 |
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Thomas Haas <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
> As mentioned in my initial posting I consider this a work-around.
> However, if certs only exit for revisions (And not for files) it is
> the way to go.
Probably I'm misunderstand what you're trying to do. The closest I
can get is that you want to say something about a specific version of
a file in the context of a revision (perhaps more generally: a
specific version of a file for a branch, or for a "release" indicated
in some way).
I wouldn't have thought it would be useful to mark a version of a file
(actually as Nathaniel commented, the contents of the file, which
doesn't include its name or anything) without connecting that to
something else. And if the "something else" can be a revision, then
you could use a revision cert.
Overall I'm not sure why using a revision cert is a workaround rather
than the right thing to use. For checking a release, you can look at
the certs attached to the revision and make sure they're all there,
for example.
I could imagine you might want to attach a cert to a particular file
(you might want to make "README" as a file that needs a specific kind
of check before making a release). What used to be file certs don't
seem right for that.
Technically I imagine that would be possible, if files have a
permanent identity as proposed by Nathaniel recently, it might be
possible to expose that sufficiently to attach certs to them. File
attrs could be done like that, I guess? On the other hand, you'd
probably want them to be versionable, so that wouldn't work well.
How about using file attributes for what you want, rather than certs?
- [Monotone-devel] Certificates for files, Thomas Haas, 2005/09/08
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Certificates for files, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/09/08
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Certificates for files, Thomas Haas, 2005/09/09
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Certificates for files, Bruce Stephens, 2005/09/09
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Certificates for files, Thomas Haas, 2005/09/09
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Certificates for files,
Bruce Stephens <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Certificates for files, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/09/09
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Certificates for files, Thomas Haas, 2005/09/12
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Certificates for files, Bruce Stephens, 2005/09/12
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Certificates for files, Jon Bright, 2005/09/12
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Certificates for files, Bruce Stephens, 2005/09/12
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Certificates for files, Thomas Haas, 2005/09/12
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Certificates for files, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/09/13
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Certificates for files, Thomas Haas, 2005/09/13
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Certificates for files, Daniel Vogelheim, 2005/09/13
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Certificates for files, Bruce Stephens, 2005/09/13