Re: [Issue 1525] Use new "entity ID" notion instead of "committed rev"

brane@tigris.org writes:
> Another note about terminology:
>
> Object or Entity ID is usually used to refer to what we call node IDs -- a
> single identifier that logically groups related versions of the same object.

Note that in issue #1525, we are using "Entity ID" as a synonym for
"node revision ID". In other words, an Entity ID doesn't refer to a
logically related group of objects, but rather to *one* object (which
may happen to be reachable from different paths/revisions in the svn
filesystem).

If two Entity IDs are related, that relationship is supposed to be
discernable just from looking at the IDs, of course.

This is probably just what Brane was trying to say above; but he
didn't come right out and say that we're using the term differently
than it's usually used (though he implied that). So I'm making this
explicit, to preëmptively avoid further confusion.

(Please coöperate with me in reïntroducing the umlaut to English.)

-Karl

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Received on Fri Jun 25 16:28:19 2004