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

From: Branko ÄŒibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2004-06-25 18:34:49 CEST

kfogel@collab.net wrote:

>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.
>
>
You more or less paraphrased what I said correctly, yes. :-)

>(Please coöperate with me in reïntroducing the umlaut to English.)
>
>
You're very naïve if you think you can teach 300 million Americans to
spell correctly. :-p

-- Brane

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