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Number issues and change requests for human references

e05f1c48d4ee55635cd7b77889f0545137198106 · Keenan Nemetz · 13d ago · parent 41d1fee9

Number issues and change requests for human references

A ULID is an unreadable handle, and the 8-character prefix the list showed
is mostly timestamp: this repository's 27 issues shared seven distinct
six-character prefixes and two pairs already collided at eight. The part
people actually type carried almost no information.

Issues and change requests now share one gap-free sequence (#1, #42, ...)
derived from the creation order in the metadata branch's history, the way
one forge counts both in a single run.

The number is not stored. It is the rank of the entity's creation commit,
so nothing is written when an entity is created, a repository needs no
backfill, the same history gives the same numbers on every clone, and
`vole admin index rebuild` reproduces them from git. A ULID stays the
identity: paths, front matter, `closes:` and audit entries are unchanged,
and data/index.db only caches the mapping so a page render does not walk
history.

Every id-taking command accepts a number, `#42` links in a body through a
kind-agnostic /r/<repo>/n/42 route, and --closes resolves an alias to the
ULID before writing.

Closes #45

server/web/request_view.go +9−2

@@ -71,8 +71,13 @@ type requestCI struct {
	71	71	// refresh the whole sidebar without rebuilding the rest of the review.
	72	72	type requestSidebarView struct {
	73	73	Page
	74		Name string
	75		Request *metadata.Request
		74	Name string
		75	Request *metadata.Request
		76	// Number is the `#42` alias, derived from creation order in history.
		77	Number int
		78	// Numbers is every alias in the repo, so the `closes` links and the thread can
		79	// name issues they were not given directly.
		80	Numbers map[string]int
	76	81	Approvals []requestApproval
	77	82	Checks []requestCheck
	78	83	Required int
@@ -201,8 +206,10 @@ func (w Web) requestSidebar(r http.Request, m repo.Meta, req metadata.Reques
	201	206	}
	202	207	}
	203	208	}
		209	nums := w.entityNumbers(m)
	204	210	return requestSidebarView{
	205	211	Page: w.page(r, title), Name: m.Name, Request: req,
		212	Number: nums[req.ID], Numbers: nums,
	206	213	Approvals: approvals, Checks: checks, Required: required, Current: current,
	207	214	CanApprove: approvable, CanClose: canClose, HeadRefNote: headRefNote,
	208	215	CanRetarget: canRetarget, BaseOptions: baseOptions, HeadOptions: headOptions,