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From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How do you best store structured data in git repositories?
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On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:14 PM, David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> wrote:
> JSON's not too bad for data structures and is known to
> be friendly to XML expats.
>
> http://json.org/

yaml is also really good for storing structured data, and its
line-by-line format lends itself to easy merging (if you don't feel
like writing a custom merge algorithm).

Have fun,

Avery