[darcs-devel] [issue1978] get does not correctly treat _darcs/format

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gh <guillaumh at gmail.com> added the comment:

>> So, what about agreeing to interpret _darcs/format lines "A|B|..|X"
>> as: A is necessary to read the repos, and A, B ... to X are necessary
>> to write to it?
>>
> I thought about it, but this means breaking compatbility: we'd have to
> write it under _darcs/format2, and have _darcs/format be the single line
> 'format2'. The problem is that we cannot change how darcs 2.5 (or 2.4)
> reads _darcs/format, so we cannot afford to have a "new semantics"
> alternative with already known properties (for instance, no
> darcs3|hashed). That should not be an insurmontable problem, given that
> darcs 2.5 understands very few format strings, but it is bug prone.

See below:

> Stupid question: does '|' ever appear in current repositories?

I believe not (although Eric should confirm). This is why I think
changing the semantics before we introduce '|' can be done.
We are lucky that the only darcs clients that exist (as of now) are ours.

So this is not a stupid question at all, this is THE question :-)

Guillaume

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