This comment was originally written by prujo...@gmail.com

See https://codereview.chromium.org/10968035 for my attempt at this.

This comment was originally written by ross.m.smith...@gmail.com

Another option would be to support pretty JSON first:

http://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=4464

Since the lock file is just JSON for now anyhow. Then YAML serialization would come after that (i'm also eager for the YAML library!)

This comment was originally written by pr...@gmail.com

I agree. This patch is narrowly focused just to handle the .lock file until JSON/YAML come further along. :)

Pushing this out to M3 since Nathan and I are quite busy. I'd like to solve this, but I would prefer a more general solution, I think.

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Andrei suggests map keys should be sorted too, to minimize deltas in diffs.

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