[RFC] bzr.jrydberg.versionedfile

[John Arbash Meinel]

Johan Rydberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> During the last week I've done some more work on my versionedfile
> branch, and have implemented the knit history format.  There is still
> a lot of things to do, but I think it is in the state where you as a
> public user can give it a try.

Thanks for doing all this work. It is really nice to see knits start to
shape up.

I know this was brought up before, and I was probably on the other side
of the fence, but I would like us to consider switching to use gzip
compression rather than zlib.
One of the nice things about all formats so far is that I could open
them up in vim and see what was going on.
With a gzipped file, I can run zcat foo | vim -, and still see the
internals.
With zlib, there is no way to do that. You *have* to use our routines to
understand the underlying bytes. Considering that the true underlying
structure is just a bunch of text chunks that seems unnecessarily brittle.

We may stick with what we've got, I just wanted to bring up the discussion.

John
=:->

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