Thread:User talk:J.a.coffman/GSoc 2013 Proposal/Accessing the revisions/reply (3)

Sorry, I'll edit my proposal to make it more clear.

The user still employs the same page-oriented dump format that they use now. Once they've received all the revisions they need, the script that the user uses to download them will then decompress each block of revisions and apply the changes to the user's local dump. The format that I describe in my proposal is only used to store the revisions server-side. This means we do not need to worry about breaking any systems the user might use that rely on the current dump format.