RE: FW: [DESIGN] Aliases?

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> You know, we already have the ability to attach arbitrary unversioned
> metadata to revisions.  And that's exactly the sort of "label" that
> David Gale is talking about.  If we had the ability to search
> revisions by querying revprops, we'd be done.  David could invent all
> the revprops he wanted, and search on those revprops to locate
> specific revision numbers.

That's pretty close to what I'm asking for, yes--though I think this
design has two large concerns.  First, it wouldn't automatically hook
into the -r argument, which is the main reason I'm advocating this
option; and, second, you'd want to limit the searches to metadata with a
specific name (since log messages, for instance, would also qualify.
You know, I could see a use for a log message search...)  Of course, I
would also imagine that this data's not currently stored in a format
that lends itself to searches...

-David