[Monotone-devel] Merges and internal representation

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Nathaniel et al,

With all the discussion on Codeville and weave representation recently, I
just wanted to remind people that there are file formats (e.g. XML, other
structured data formats) which are not particularly well suited to line
based storage and merging; many SCMs like Clearcase have a pluggable
architecture which allows files to be associated with a type manager
responsible for knowing how to store, merge and annotate different types
of files.

It would be nice to ensure that any changes as a result of codeville
discussion didn't prejudice the capability to support a type manager
architecture in the future.

This flexibility would also allow people to experiment with different
storage and merge methods more easily.

Joel