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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Future of monotone
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Nathaniel Smith |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Future of monotone |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:55:39 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:40:56PM +0100, Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> Yeah, and that argument gets even stronger if you take imports or
> pulling from foreign VCSes into account: you will have to pull in
> commits, tags and branches, and certainly can't recycle the "cert" from
> the source VCS (if here even is such a thing).
>
> Having distinct signer and authors for tags and branches makes sense in
> those cases, IMO. Deferring that complexity to commit messages, which
> then have to be parsed by third party tools strikes me as a rather bad
> idea, taking flexibility from monotone.
If you need clean roundtripping, author fields are hardly your worst
problem. You're going to need to add extra system-specific metadata
regardless, and hey, look at these nice user-extensible cert things...
:-).
-- Nathaniel
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- [Monotone-devel] Re: Re: Future of monotone, (continued)
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Re: Future of monotone, Pavel Cahyna, 2008/01/28
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Future of monotone, Thomas Keller, 2008/01/28
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Future of monotone, Derek Scherger, 2008/01/28
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Future of monotone, Nathaniel Smith, 2008/01/28
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Future of monotone, Thomas Moschny, 2008/01/29
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Future of monotone, Bruce Stephens, 2008/01/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Future of monotone, Julio M. Merino Vidal, 2008/01/29
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Future of monotone, Bruce Stephens, 2008/01/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Future of monotone, Julio M. Merino Vidal, 2008/01/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Future of monotone, Markus Schiltknecht, 2008/01/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Future of monotone,
Nathaniel Smith <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Future of monotone, Markus Schiltknecht, 2008/01/29
- RE: [Monotone-devel] Re: Future of monotone, Kelly F. Hickel, 2008/01/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Future of monotone, Markus Schiltknecht, 2008/01/29
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Future of monotone, Bruce Stephens, 2008/01/28
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Future of monotone, Graydon Hoare, 2008/01/29
[Monotone-devel] Re: Future of monotone, Graydon Hoare, 2008/01/29
Re: [Monotone-devel] Future of monotone, Ulf Ochsenfahrt, 2008/01/28
Re: [Monotone-devel] Future of monotone, Markus Schiltknecht, 2008/01/28