newformat format change

[Aaron Bentley]

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John A Meinel wrote:
> Actually, one request that I would like to make (since we are breaking
> all the files anyway) is to put a version number in all of the files
> that we write.

I think that's too many degrees of freedom.  I'd like to know, at Branch
construction time, whether I can process the data in that branch.
Permitting multiple incompatible formats in for the revisions /
inventories would make it too expensive to determine that.

> Now, it might be that you are thinking to make these files always have a
> fixed version relative to the branch-format. Which is okay, but since
> they are separate files, it would be nice to have a separate version
> declaration.

Well, okay, but it's totally redundant, then.

Aaron
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