Provide an descriptive, editable and human-readable Repo Name field

[colans]

Currently, there's a Repo Name field, but it's really an ID that:

• can't be changed later, and
• isn't human-readable (e.g. spaces aren't allowed)

It would be nice to have some sort of descriptive name field that can actually be changed. UX++

Solution:

1. Change the field label of Repo Name to Repo ID (keeping everything else the same, i.e. storage)
2. Add a new field called Repo Name which is a regular text field that allows whitespace, etc., and can be changed later. Place it above the ID field.
3. In menus, and wherever else the repo name is now used, swap in the new field instead.
4. Optional: Have the ID field prepopulate with whatever users type into the descriptive name field, adding hyphens & such.

[garethgeorge]

Hey, appreciate the FR but I'm a bit hesitant here for a few reasons

My current thinking is that there's value in the name in the UI being consistent with the tag set on snapshots in the restic repo. A first class principle of backrest is that things you do in the UI should also be understandable from the restic cli. So for that reason IDs are a subset of strings admissible by restic tag.

I've thought a bit about, as you say, making the ID an internal property and supporting human readable strings -- but I think this adds a possible footgun by making it such that there are two different ways of referring to the same thing in the system. The case only gets more muddled when I introduce features like multihost management. Can the same repo have different names on different instances? etc.

To keep my maintenance simple I'm probably ruling out aliases as a feature.

[colans]

What about keeping it visible? Just add another field that's changeable?

My use case is that I have repos that I can't rename, but want to because I'm naming things differently now. If there were a changeable field, I wouldn't care what the IDs were.