[RFC] The packrepo.txt document still talks KnitPack internally

Aaron Bentley aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Wed Nov 28 03:04:24 GMT 2007


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Robert Collins wrote:
> (Slightly influenced
> here by Keith Packards assertion about data format clarity being
> important).

I actually think Keith was completely wrong.  He wrote:

I would like to argue that none of the user-interface and high-level
functional details are nearly as important as the fundamental repository
structure. When evaluating source code management systems, I primarily
researched the repository structures and essentially ignored the user
interface details. We can fix the user interface over time and even add
features. We cannot, however, fix a broken repository structure without
all of the pain inherent in changing systems.

Bazaar has shown that changing repository structures can be done, almost
painlessly.  Git and Hg have had more performant disk formats.  But a
disk format is nothing without a good user model.

Aaron
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