[RFC][BBC] New revision serializer

[Aaron Bentley]

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Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> Aaron Bentley wrote:
>> Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>>>> Does this format look reasonable?
>>> And once again I forget the attachment.. here it is.
>> My main question is about alternatives; did you consider using RIO or
>> bencode?  If so, why is this better?  This looks close to RIO...
> I was told bencode was mainly useful for encoding streams (e.g. network
> traffic).

Can't really agree there.  It's very similar to JSON in storage
capability, but isn't human-readable.  It's used in bundles, for
example.  It lacks support for unicode, tuples and sets, which can
sometimes be a pain, though.

> I wasn't aware of RIO and it does indeed look very much like
> what I ended up with, so it seems silly not to use it instead.

Cool!  (RIO is used for conflicts, and a variant is used for merge
directives.  I think RIO was originally intended for revisions, though.)

Aaron
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