[tahoe-dev] darcs patch: shorten ids

[Arno Waschk]

mnet had 4-character base64 ids, which came from mojonation, and slowly  
changed to 5-character base32 ids, which were the only ones in 0.7 trees.
the 8-character thing was a quick agreemant betwenn zooko and me on IRC,  
but i think the idea of having different lengths showing different types  
of ids is very good.

arno

Am 14.08.2007, 00:55 Uhr, schrieb Brian Warner <warner at allmydata.com>:

> For this one, I'd like to see us standardize on some short-id lengths
> for various purposes. For example, we might decide that 4-character
> base32 strings are a clue that we're talking about a node, whereas
> 6-characters might be a dirnode StorageIndex, and 8-characters is a CHK
> StorageIndex.
>
> These are purely cosmetic, of course, but at least being consistent
> about nodeids always being displayed as N characters long will help
> people compare various log messages that are referring to the same node.
>
> What were the mnet conventions here? I seem to remember seeing a lot of
> 4-character node ids, but I don't know what conventions were used for
> files and blockids.
>
>   -Brian
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