Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?

[Momchil Velikov]

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Suffield <address@hidden> writes:

Andrew> On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 07:51:12AM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
>> >>= Tom Lord
>> 
>> >> On the one hand, sure, you could abstract the `cmp' and
>> >> conceptually the world doesn't fall apart.
>> 
>> >> But on the other hand, that would mean (for example) that `get'
>> >> would sometimes return a tree whose source files are not
>> >> byte-wise equivalent to those that were passed to `commit'.
>> >> It's a pretty big leap of faith to think that that's desirable.
>> 
>> >= Thomas Zander
>> 
>> > If a file is an honest XML file I fail to see why this would be a problem;
>> 
>> Because it also an honest regular byte-stream file.   For example,
>> a typical md5-sum program will see it as such.

Andrew> Oops, there goes cryptographic signatures.

Unless computed on a cannonical form.

~velco