Comment 3 for bug 188089

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 188089] Re: relies on sha1 for inventories

On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 14:24 +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> I know Robert objected to having a validator for some reason, but I can
> no longer remember why.

I objected to having a 'generic validator' in a typed object.

a serialised revision is of a particular format, its already keyed by
repository format and serialiser format. in pack repositories the
validator *is* a sha1. So its about layering.

-Rob
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