[jaredly]

Oh hi kevin! So if there's a possibility that the "extra data" would get out of sync with the "source code" (e.g. via a git merge, or someone just editing the source code as plain text), then it unfortunately breaks the guarantees that this system needs :( I guess I could store a sha of each and fail loudly if I detect that one was edited "outside of the IDE" but again I think that would break the assumptions that git makes about diffs &c. I've tried to go down the "text but nicer" route before, and it always comes up short; so now I'm trying "text is not a supported representation" we'll see how far I get.

[dangoor]

Hey Jared :)

Yeah, good point that text is a potentially fragile approach when combined with git. I think the Squeak Smalltalk folks figured out a way to retrofit git support, so maybe it's possible to go all-in on the representation you want and work out git support later if it seems useful enough.