[RFC] store inventory in tab-separated file

[Aaron Bentley]

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Martin Pool wrote:

> I think if this is going well for Alexander then he should continue.
> Just generally in open source projects I don't think it makes sense to
> stop what person A is doing now in favour of what person B wants to do
> in the future.

Oh certainly.  I thought you were already working on the new format.
And however it came off, it was only meant as a suggestion.

> Anyhow a split up inventory will want a more efficient format for each
> of the directories, and if this is it that's great.

My pet desire for a new inventory format is I'd like each of the values
to be annotated individually, so that we can do a completely
annotate-based merge.  (That works even with shallow branches that do
not store their common base)

Aaron
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