Hi,

On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Johan Herland wrote:

quoted text
> The text-based softrefs file format uses 82 bytes per entry (40 bytes 
> from_sha1 in hex, 1 byte SP, 40 bytes to_sha1 in hex, 1 byte LF).
> 
> The binary softrefs file format uses 40 bytes per entry (20 bytes 
> from_sha1, 20 bytes to_sha1).
> 
> Moving to a binary format increases performance slightly, but sacrifices 
> easy readability of the softrefs files.

It is bad style to introduce one type, and then change it to another in a 
backwards-incompatible way. Either you make it backwards compatible, or 
you start with the second format, never even mentioning that you had 
another format.

Ciao,
Dscho

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