[RFC] New revision serializer format

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 08:20:59AM +0000, Matt Nordhoff wrote:
> Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > Now that brisbane-core is coming along nicely, it seems to me like this
> > is the right moment to also fix the revision serializer. The current one
> > can't handle some characters (since they're not XML-escapable). 

> > It would be nice to get rid of this limitation, in particular since a
> > consequence of it is that foreign vcs plugins have to escape
> > XML-incompatible characters when pulling from $VCS into bzr. 

> > I'd like to provide a patch for this new revision serializer, but I'm
> > wondering what the best format would be. XML seems suboptimal, since
> > it's quite verbose, relatively slow and since it would require hacks to 
> hacks to what?
Hack to cope with unicode characters that can not be represented in
XML.

Cheers,

Jelmer