From: Petr Baudis Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 16:03:33 GMT Subject: Re: Re: Merge with git-pasky II. 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 told me that... > 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? -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor