Re: Re: Merge with git-pasky II.

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Apr 16, 2005, 16:03 UTC
Message-ID: <20050416160333.GF19099@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20050416155536.GX4488@himi.org>

Dear diary, on Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 05:55:37PM CEST, I got a letter where Simon Fowler <simon@himi.org> told me that...

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> On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 05:19:24AM -0700, David Lang wrote:
> > Simon
> > 
> > given that you have multiple machines creating files, how do you deal with 
> > the idea of the same 'unique id' being assigned to different files by 
> > different machines?
> > 
> The id is a sha1 hash of the current time and the full path of the
> file being added - the chances of that being replicated without
> malicious intent is extremely small. There are other things that
> could be used, like the hostname, username of the person running the
> program, etc, but I don't really see them being necessary.

Why not just use UUID?

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