Re: How do you best store structured data in git repositories?

On Thursday, Dec 03 2009 at 16:14 -0800, David Aguilar wrote:

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 04:17:10PM -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote:

quoted

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Sebastian Setzer
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Do you use XML for this purpose?

XML is terrible for most data storage purposes.

I agree 100%.

JSON's not too bad for data structures and is known to
be friendly to XML expats.

Sorry, I didn't want to start a flamewar against XML. I'm no big friend
of XML myself, but I don't know of an (open source) diff-/merge tool for
any general purpose file format other than XML or plain text.
When you mention other formats, I'd be interested in
  - why this format is good for storage in git
  - if there are merge tools available which ensure that, after a merge,
the structure (and maybe additional contraints) is still valid.

Thanks for your comments,
Sebastian