repositories - pinning down discovery behaviour

[Aaron Bentley]

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Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:08:44 -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>>| the uuid idea is just your "bit" idea, but with a lot more entropy :-)
>>
>>I'm not sure I like the notion of using UUIDs here, because we also
>>encourage the use of cp on, e.g. standalone branches.  So the UUIDs
>>cease being unique fairly quickly.  Sorry if I'm being hard-to-please.
> 
> 
> I believe the UUID was meant to be copied by branch, rather than a new
> one generated.

This is about repository UUIDs, whose purpose is to differentiate
between repositories.

> Indeed, branches really don't have identity in bzr. But the root-id
> would be a reasonable solution (and it's obvious that /would/ be copied
> by branch).

Not applicable, since a repository may not have any branches (yet)

Aaron
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