Storage internals: UUID

[Ben Finney]

"Daniel Carrera" <dcarrera at hush.com> writes:

> On Tuesday, June 05, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Max Bowsher <_ at maxb.eu> wrote:
> > What you are doing, is arguing a case based on accepting as an
> > axiomatic truth that it is necessary and valuable to incorporate a
> > cryptographic hash of a revision's contents in a revision's primary
> > identifier.
> >
> > Bazaar does not accept this as an axiom. You'll need to justify your
> > thoughts on why this should be the case, instead of treating
> > identity and cryptographic integrity as two separate pieces of data.
>
> Please don't say that about me. You are basically calling me dogmatic.

Max chose words that make a clear distinction between your statements
versus you as a person. He made comment only on the position you
expressed. Please don't make the common mistake of taking that as saying
something about you.

> The value of a hash as an identifier is that […]

Thanks for taking up the request to justify your position.

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Ben Finney