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[Monotone-devel] Re: character set.
From: |
Bruce Stephens |
Subject: |
[Monotone-devel] Re: character set. |
Date: |
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:01:43 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
Lapo Luchini <address@hidden> writes:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
[...]
>> The manual is out of date. Database storage is binary, 8-bit clean,
>
> Wow, how old is that?
> I began using mtn a good couple of years ago, and all I remember about
> storage (I don't remember where I read it) is that I was pleasantly
> surprised by the fact that content was *always* using binary diffs and
> only using text for merging or annotating or so…
It used to store the binary deltas in base64, IIRC. (Just an
implementation detail, in other words.)