[RFC] bzr.jrydberg.versionedfile

[Johan Rydberg]

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

> So we are talking about ~10% overhead to be able to read the knit in a
> text editor. I'm willing to make that trade.

So am I.

> Also, I wanted to bring up the 'incomplete' marking in the index. It
> makes it seem like there is something missing in the entry. I think
> using "noeol" or something like that would be better. It is shorter,
> which is good, but more importantly it doesn't sound scary. :)

The word comes from the terminology that patch uses.  They call a line
without a line-ending a "incomplete line."  I thought
'incomplete-line' was too long.  But you might be right, something
like 'no-eol' could be better.  Not that users should look in the
index files.

~j