Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch revision namespace

[Tom Lord]

   From: Aaron Bentley <address@hidden>

   Tom Lord wrote:
   > Sorry if I was unclear.  I think the `<user-name>' should be pretty
   > free-form (unlike Arch 1.x) and the `<checksum>' part is so that if
   > two users happen to choose the same `<user-name>', at least a "fully
   > qualified" version of that commit name (one that includes the
   > checksum) will presumably disambiguate.

   So by '<user-name>', you mean something like 
   'address@hidden/tla--devo--2.0--patch-5', not 'tlord' or 'address@hidden', 
   right?  (And then we can relax the restrictions on the non-checksum part.)

Right.  It's a user's name for a revision, not the user's own name.

-t