Hi, On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Johan Herland wrote: > 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html