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

[Andrew Suffield]

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.

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