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

[Alexander Belchenko]

Jelmer Vernooij пишет:
> Martin Pool wrote:
>> 2009/4/15 Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at vernstok.nl>:
>>> Attached is an updated version of my RIOSerializer patch. It was
>>> originally sent against brisbane-core.
>>>
>>> It would be nice if it could make it into the stable format for 1.15. If
>>> it is accepted it needs to be changed to be included in that rather than
>>> in the existing CHK format.
>> It sounds good to me in principle.  Using XML has caused several other
>> bugs beside the one you mentioned because it doesn't really guarantee
>> to store strings byte-for-byte.  It's also a while ago been a slightly
>> annoying external dependency.
>>
>> However, before moving to RIO for future formats (and I say this
>> having added the code) I would think hard about whether it should use
>> bencode instead, which has the advantage of being able to represent
>> somewhat more complex nesting (like dicts inside dicts) without
>> needing a separate layer of encoding on top.  Revisions are pretty
>> simple but even there it may be useful.  I'm not sure about the
>> relative performance.

> The nice thing of RIO is that it is a lot more human-readable (and
> writable). 

What use case for this? Is it really benefit?