various suggestions for mr

[Adam Spiers]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Joey Hess <joey at kitenet.net> wrote:
> Adam Spiers wrote:
>> However, the basename operation does not preserve the uniqueness
>> property which $MR_REPO had, and that's why I say that we need an
>> additional namespace.
>
> So pick an operation that does? tr / _ would do, for example.

The other implicit requirement of this namespace was that it is
easy to remember and type.  The rest of my previous email
gives the context for this requirement.