[darcs-users] [darcs-devel] [issue992] short secure version identifiers

[zooko]

Hello Max Battcher -- I'm sorry that I didn't see this letter that  
you wrote to me on darcs-users on 2008-08-12.

On Aug 12, 2008, at 21:32 PM, Max Battcher wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, does he know about context files?  If so  
> does he
> not find them sufficient?

Yes he does.  He uses them occasionally on the command-line, but more- 
over he wrote darcs support in buildbot which uses context files in  
places where other revision control tools use sequence numbers or  
secure hashes.

He is dissatisfied with them because they aren't short and because  
they aren't secure.

I actually sort of disagree with him on that latter point, or more  
nuancedly I suspect that the vaunted secure-hash-based integrity  
checks in monotone, git, et al., which Brian wishes to have in his  
revision control tool, are actually insufficient to provide the kind  
of security that we need, but I won't explain more about that in this  
letter.


> I still think that right now the best documentation on context  
> files is
> my own blog post:

By the way, way to go on adding more documentation to darcs!  Please  
keep up your practice of converting your blog posts into wiki or  
manual pages.

Regards,

Zooko
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