Lapo Luchini wrote:
Bruce Stephens wrote:
It used to store the binary deltas in base64, IIRC. (Just an
implementation detail, in other words.)
OK, but that's only because SQLite2 had problems with \0 most probably,
and has nothing to do with the actual content of committed files; on the
content being binary-safe, I guess we would have discovered any bug by
now for sure, we even committed gigs of binary content (photos) at the
summit ;-)
(de lurking temporarily)
It's actually because monotone was initially -- perhaps as many as 5 or
6 years ago -- built to communicate by blindly flooding changes over
unauthenticated transports, including junky 7-bit ASCII channels like
SMTP and NNTP, and just filtering out the stuff it received but didn't
trust. For a time it even had a micro-NNTP client.
The packet system is there for that reason. SQLite2 just compounded the
reasoning. But it's all completely obsolete.
-Graydon
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