[Swift-devel] Re: oops provenance

[Ben Clifford]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Michael Wilde wrote:

> yes, "but". Its long and hard to manage. We have experience now with both
> Falkon and Swift in giving runs simple short IDs, and that has worked well.
> Its so much easier to talk about oops run 0042 than run *imqvgr8. The long ID
> is also useful but should be more hidden and internal.

Swift has a -runid parameter that allows you to override the 
date/time/randomid with a string of your choosing. This was implemented 
specifically to address this case, where the end user believes they can 
succesfully give runs IDs themselves and so swift does not need to. None 
of the code requires the run id to be in the default generated format - 
thats a conservative verbose default for when the user does not want to 
generate identifiers themselves.

swift -runid foo first.xml 

for example, will generate a logfile first-foo.log

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