> On 18 Jun 2015, at 20:47, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jun 18, 2015, at 11:36 AM, Dave <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Obviously the git Client would have to be smart enough to display it 
>> correctly, but as there would be no formatting information in the file, it 
>> would compare the raw data and then display it using the same rules.
>> It would be similar in concept to a MS-Word .doc or .docx file.
> 
> Good luck getting every source control engine and client to adopt your new 
> format. ;-)

The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step….. lol

> Developers are used to having a huge ecosystem of tools that work with 
> line-oriented plain-text files. This was one of the major innovations and 
> building blocks of Unix from the beginning. That’s a major reason why almost 
> no one has ever used anything but human-readable plain text for source files.

Yeah, Unix set the industry back at least 10 years, things were much better 
before Unix reared it ugly bug-ridden head!

Cheers
Dave


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