compressed weaves, and revision.weave

[John A Meinel]

Aaron Bentley wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>
>>>Also, I have a interesting idea for the revision-sig.weave. Basically, I
>>>want to create a "null:" entry, which then has most of the common lines
>>>that go into a GPG signature (all of the ----BEGIN--- stuff). And then,
>>>rather than actually try and worry about ancestry, just have everything
>>>be a direct descendant of that base revision.
>
>
> Won't that automatically happen with the first real entry anyhow?  I
> would rather not associate a junk signature with the null revision.
>
> Aaron

Only if you actually did real ancestry. The current weave format only
shares lines between parents and their children.

I could certainly make it "BASE-not-really-a-revision-please-ignore-me".

I just have to have something which is a base to everything.

The reason I didn't want to do real ancestry is because you certainly
could never say that all of the ancestry will be present. I might sign
my entries, but you wouldn't sign yours, etc.

Do you want me to changed the name?

Right now I'm having the text for the "null:" signature be the sha1 hash
of nothing.

: | sha1sum
da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709  -

This seemed to fit "null:" to me.
But I can certainly change it to use something else.

John
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