From: "Sean E. Russell" <ser@...>
Date: 2005-07-04T10:42:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Subversion

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On Sunday 03 July 2005 10:20, Christian Neukirchen wrote:
> So you are saying that SVN's binary, cryptic storage (even with FSFS)
> is less "funky" than a text-based file-format that could be parsed
> with a few lines of Ruby?

Yup, because the text-based file-format files are equally useless without t=
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tools that created them.  Even if you could use the metadata, I'd debate th=
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usefulness of being able to do so, and whether it was worth losing features=
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that you use every day, such as O(1) copies and branches, check-outs that=20
don't take a half-hour to complete, and sub-projects.

In any case, I don't think this conversation is going anywhere and is creat=
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a lot of noise, so I'm bowing out.

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=2D-- SER

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents,=20
more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.  On some=20
great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach=20
their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned=20
by a downright moron."        -  H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

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