From: Sebastian Setzer <sebastianspublicaddress@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:20:21 GMT
Subject: Re: How do you best store structured data in git repositories?
Message-ID: <1260220821.3545.12.camel@nord26-amd64>
In-Reply-To: <20091204001359.GA6709@gmail.com>

On Thursday, Dec 03 2009 at 16:14 -0800, David Aguilar wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 04:17:10PM -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Sebastian Setzer
> > <sebastianspublicaddress@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > Do you use XML for this purpose?
> > 
> > XML is terrible for most data storage purposes.
> 
> I agree 100%.
> 
> JSON's not too bad for data structures and is known to
> be friendly to XML expats.
> 
Sorry, I didn't want to start a flamewar against XML. I'm no big friend
of XML myself, but I don't know of an (open source) diff-/merge tool for
any general purpose file format other than XML or plain text.
When you mention other formats, I'd be interested in
  - why this format is good for storage in git
  - if there are merge tools available which ensure that, after a merge,
the structure (and maybe additional contraints) is still valid.

Thanks for your comments,
Sebastian