Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: nuskool & certs created after a revision

[William Uther]

On 02/05/2008, at 6:14 PM, Lapo Luchini wrote:

> Of course one approach that works for sure is gsync-over-branches  
> (and sending all of the certs with them as well) and then a merkle- 
> refinement just to catch up with those few certs that are created  
> later. I think that such a merkle-refinement would be very fast, as  
> only differences in certificates created on the edge of previous  
> gsync on the frontier nodes could really be different, so very  
> little differences in average.

I think this is a 'neat' solution.  The problem is that you have to  
keep merkle trie code.  If you go with Graydon's solution then you can  
ditch that code.  That is a maintainability win.

Cheers,

Will         :-}