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Re: [Monotone-devel] Keyids and author names (was: Commit finally worked
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Nathaniel Smith |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Keyids and author names (was: Commit finally worked) |
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Wed, 12 Nov 2003 14:50:56 -0800 |
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:41:14AM -0800, Kevin Smith wrote:
> graydon hoare wrote:
> >the author concept is only used for the "author" cert, which
> >subsequently is only used in the "log" command. nothing fancier than
> >that. if you think it's too many extra concepts, maybe we should just
> >squish author and key together into one concept.
>
> I would favor defaulting author to the keyid, but still allowing a hook
> to override it. I chose my keyid expecting it to be my public monotone
> alias.
I think this is right.
address@hidden on my desktop is "address@hidden". This is not
a name that anyone will recognize as referring to me (though I guess
there aren't _that_ many njs's out there). I can see why author and
key aren't necessarily the same thing, but the keyid a person chose
seems to be the best guess by far to the name they want to use for
development.
-- Nathaniel
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