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investigated file formats; appending timestamp should preserve back-compat

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Joey Hess 2011-10-05 16:35:01 -04:00
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@ -13,5 +13,19 @@ as is done with the other log files, then git-annex can consistently
pick the newest value -- which is as close to the "right" value as can be pick the newest value -- which is as close to the "right" value as can be
determined in this situation. determined in this situation.
(For backwards compatability, git-annex should ----
treat lines with no timestamp as being timestamped with 0.)
File format backwards-compatability is the issue. Ideally, old git-annex
would keep working, ignoring the timestamp.
- uuid.log: "uuid description timestamp" would work; old git-annex
would just treat the timestamp as part of the description which would be
ok
- trust.log: "uuid trustlevel timestamp" would work; old git-annex
ignores trailing words
- remote.log: "uuid key=value ... timestamp" is on the edge but does work
(old git-annex will include the timestamp in the key/value map it builds,
but that should not break anything really)
Appending "timestamp=xxxxx" would be good for clarity, and make
it easier to parse the timestamp out from lines that have it.