[RFC] bzr.jrydberg.versionedfile

[Johan Rydberg]

John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

>> 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.

Thanks.

> 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.

Each data entry in the data file is compressed individually. Can zcat
handle several "small files" in one file?

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

~j