At 10:10 AM 4/18/00 -0700, Josh MacDonald wrote:
>> Because DCMS stores everything as files, this can be accomplished easily
>> with rsync(). There are only two tricky bits I can see:
>>
>> 1. Ensuring that a locally created branch (created while offline) gets a
>> universally unique true name.
>
>I would use a large random number as the "true name", though I like to
>use "identifier" instead of "name" in that case. People can name branches
>with local names from there (this fits with a realistic security architecture
>too).
Make sure there are enough bits in your "large random number". I work with a system which uses 32 bits and conflicts are common. SHA was developed with 160 bits because people were uncomfortable with having "only" 128 bits in MD5.