# Re: Round-tripping fast-export/import changes commit hashes

- From: anatoly techtonik \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-03-03 06:41:58 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/03/7878305
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/02/7877813/t.md

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On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 11:02 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
[ref] wrote:
>
> Aside from other things mentioned & any issues in fast export/import in
> this thread, if you want round-trip correctness you're not going to want
> JSON-anything. It's not capable of representing arbitrary binary data.

Yes, binary data needs to be explicitly represented in base64 or similar
encoding. Just the same way as ordinary strings will need escape
symbols.
-- 
anatoly t.
```