Re: [PROPOSAL] Drop XML from .svn/entries

On Apr 12, 2006, at 6:00 AM, Branko Čibej wrote:

> Before we go ballistic about file formats, I'd like to note that
> the real problem with XML in .svn/entries isn't speed but all the
> escaping that needs to be done. Escaping will be needed with any
> format, but XML is a special PITA here.

Actually, speed is a problem.
We currently have to rewrite the entire file to change a single entry
right now.

You could probably hack around that by just appending if you could
guarantee that cutting the existing xml and appending xml entries
would never cause problems.

Certainly, for svn 2.0, we shouldn't be using file formats that don't
support replace and update without rewriting the entire thing.
(How we do this, i don't care).

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Received on Wed Apr 12 22:35:20 2006