[MERGE][RFC] Add simple revision serializer based on RIO.

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 09:19:45AM -0400, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> Ian Clatworthy has voted comment.
> Status is now: Semi-approved
> Comment:
> A performance improvement would be one of the main reasons for including  
> this or otherwise. I'd like to see this patch resubmitted so that this  
> serialiser is used in a proposed new development format. (At first  
> glance, it looks like your changing the behaviour of an existing  
> format?) I can then more easily benchmark its impact, report the results  
> and vote accordingly.

Another improvement is that it makes the escape_commit_message hack
that we currently have in the commit code and in foreign branch
implementations. This hack is required since the current format does
not support XML-unescapable characters in any of these fields.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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