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diff --git a/.be/bugs/51930348-9ccc-4165-af41-6c7450de050e/comments/f1479ecf-4154-4cd4-bbd6-0ed6275b9f98/body b/.be/bugs/51930348-9ccc-4165-af41-6c7450de050e/comments/f1479ecf-4154-4cd4-bbd6-0ed6275b9f98/body deleted file mode 100644 index 372a655..0000000 --- a/.be/bugs/51930348-9ccc-4165-af41-6c7450de050e/comments/f1479ecf-4154-4cd4-bbd6-0ed6275b9f98/body +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ -There is no obvious means of using -".be/version"/"libbe.bugdir.TREE_VERSION_STRING". In the past I've -worked around this by keeping all the disk-reading backwards -compatible (e.g. homemade mapfile -> YAML, the "From" hack in -libbe.comment.Comment.load_settings, possibly others). However, this -is not the road to easily maintainable code. - -Most projects only need to maintain backwards compatibility with the -last few versions of their disk cache, to allow users an easy upgrade -path. The difficulties come with "be diff", which must be able to -read _every_ disk-image of the bugdir ever committed into something -comparible with the current cutting edge. This makes sweeping changes -very difficult. VCSs themselves avoid this by never showing their -disk-cache to another program, but we've shown ours to the VCS, and -it's difficult (or impossible, depending on the VCS) to change history -to match the current format. |