DOCS Bundle format 4 aka 1.0alpha

[Aaron Bentley]

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Robert Collins wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 22:44 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>>> It doesn't mention support for rich roots and subtrees as being
>> Rich roots are more subtle.  I think we'll have to ensure
>> that transferring xml7 to xml5 doesn't lose any data, but I think we
>> can
>> do that reasonably easily. 
> 
> I thought we prohibited such transfers because the if the revision is
> committed on top of in the xml5 repository, the root revision
> information is trashed, and going back to xml7 data is made into
> garbage. ?

Right.  The only case where you can safely transfer from xml7 to xml5 is
if the xml7 data was originally converted from xml5 data.  I was
thinking of supporting that case only.

> Shouldn't the bundle compatability matrix be the same as the regular
> 'fetch' one ?

Probably I'm just getting sentimental in my old age.

Aaron
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