Re: Can we please switch the svndiff integer encoding?

On 9 Feb 2002 cmpilato@collab.net wrote:

> Daniel Berlin <dan@dberlin.org> writes:
>
> > As you can see, the only real difference is the continuation marker.
>
> ...and the fact that we have an entire repository using that
> particular continuation marker. :-)
Speaking of this, why don't we have any kind of repository version number,
so that we can make incompatible changes and still have backwards
compatiblity.

In this case, we could just plug in the old encode_int/decode_int for old
repositories, and use the new one for new ones.

Without some kind of version number on the repo, we'll likely never be
able to
really make backwards incompatible changes, and be able to support both
the new and old behavior.
Which seems a bit short sighted.

>
> I like the idea of using standards, but if we make this change it must
> happen in between my up-coming undeltification/re-deltification of the
> entire repository.

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