Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: monotone & CVS import

[graydon hoare]

Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:28:40AM -0500, graydon hoare wrote:
> > space character is an unfortunate special case becuse some data in
> > monotone is whitespace delimited (manifest entries and historical
> > rename certs). so .. hmm. I think manifests would survive introducing
> > space as an allowed character since they have exactly 40 characters of
> > hex as their first component, and then 2 spaces, then "rest of line" as
> > the path name. can't add '\n', but I don't think many files have that.
> 
> sha1sum appears to have interestingly undocumented behaviour here.

wow, that's .. awful. spaces I will fiddle around and probably
support. newlines, tabs, non-printing characters, probably not. not
unless there's a persuative i18n reason and a strong, code-by-code
analysis of the security affects on ascii-based filesystems.

> How about <len1>:<len bytes>\n<len2>:<len bytes>?  That should be easy
> to parse for both computers and humans, while getting that nice sexpy
> goodness going...

yeah. something simple like that, at least for the rename certs. the
xdelta format I made up works pretty much like that. it helps to keep
it readable, for debugging.

-graydon