RFC: #mtree signature

[Tim Kientzle]

Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2007-Aug-18 18:18:44 -0700, Tim Kientzle <tim at kientzle.com> wrote:
> 
>>Any concerns or thoughts about the following
>>patch, which simply adds "#mtree" as the first
>>line of every mtree file?
> 
> 
> Sounds like a good idea.  I would suggest that if we're going to add
> a signature block, it include a version string in case we want to
> incompatibly change the mtree format at some future date.
> 
> Maybe:  "#mtree v1.0\n".

Good point.  That will mean a little more effort
to coordinate with the NetBSD folks, who have
already revved the format.  I suppose their
"mtree -C" format should be marked "#mtree v2.0\n".

Tim Kientzle