From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Subject: Re: gitpacker progress report and a question Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:30:33 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20121127073033.GB23169@thyrsus.com> References: <20121115212818.GA21558@thyrsus.com> <20121126220108.GB1713@thyrsus.com> <20121126234359.GA8042@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Felipe Contreras X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 27 08:30:55 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TdFd4-0001TY-S2 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:30:51 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758237Ab2K0Hag (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:30:36 -0500 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:54768 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758215Ab2K0Haf (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:30:35 -0500 Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 978C540661; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:30:33 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Felipe Contreras : > > The main objective of the logfile design is to make hand-crafting > > these easy. > > Here's another version with YAML: Clever. Now I have to decide if I should allow my aesthetic dislike of YAML to prevail despite the fact that it's pretty well suited to this job. There is definitely a case for applying a standard metaprotocol like YAML (ugh) or XML (double ugh). -- Eric S. Raymond