Would it not be possible to assign the version name based on local, best effort knowledge alone and deal with possible conflicts afterwards (there is the ancestory) ?
to me that would make more sense.
- Is it necessary that the version name is globally unique? I doubt so. - Having it unique per repository should be enough, no?
Ironically this proposition would make some Monticello operations slower, because Monticello will need to download and open all versions with the same name to figure out if the ancestry matches. Furthermore, this would subtly break many tools, because most of them do not look at the ancestry but only at the filename (again to make it fast). Last but not least, the proposal will annoy people that want to integrate changes and that cannot because a file with that name is already in their repository. Lukas -- Lukas Renggli www.lukas-renggli.ch