[PATCH 03/12] git save format: add dive computer nicknames and firmware details

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Sun Mar 9 21:08:22 PDT 2014


On Sun, 2014-03-09 at 20:42 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Or are you considering this equivalent to our v2 file format?
> 
> Yes, I consider the git format to be the same "version" as the XML
> format. They really are very similar.
> 
> And there's no way the two could be confused for each other because
> the data *transport* format is so different, so I thought it was
> better to say that this is the same version as the xml format, just in
> a different wrapper.
> 
> But if you want to make it 3, there's nothing wrong with that.

No, it's fine, I just wanted to talk about it and figure out what's
right. They are logically the same and physically totally different -
and the real reason for versioning is if they are physically similar but
logically different.

/D



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