Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] mtn commit without -b and mtn branch

[Alvaro Herrera]

Nathaniel Smith wrote:

> Existing commands in your categories 3 and 4:
> 
> privkey, pubkey: 'privkey' is already the dispreferred interface to
>   get a private key (easier to just copy around
>   ~/.monotone/keys/<whatever>), and we've been talking about 
> 
> dropkey: this is basically a hold-over from the past, when we were
>   just guessing what commands people would need... there are basically
>   no cases where you need this?  Esp. if you can remove a private key,
>   again, by just going through ~/.monotone/keys directly.
> 
> chkeypass, genkey: These are real commands, but they could sure have
>   better names.  For chkeypass, perhaps 'passphrase' (cf. passwd(1))?
>   For genkey, hmm, I guess it is consistent with ssh-keygen, but
>   wouldn't something like make-key be even better?

These sound very much like there should be a "key" category with
subcommands like "generate", "passphrase", etc.  (The rest sound like
they are going to be removed at some point?)

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