Binary file support

[John Arbash Meinel]

I know Aaron mentioned a patch in the past, to add a binary flag to
files, so that we can more properly handle diff and merge.
I was just wondering what people think. I was working on a paper, and I
realized I have a lot of large images, that would probably do horrible
things to a weave.
With v4, because it always stored full texts, it didn't really matter if
it was binary or not.

Now, I think weavefiles will handle binaries. I just have to wonder if
that is a really good way of doing it. It doesn't "feel" right.

It seems like it might be worth going back to the old "text-store"
format if the file was binary. It is still more compact than the old
arch code (which for each patch would store the old version and the new
version).

I also know that Robert Collins was doing something about "rolling
checksums", so maybe I just need to hear what he was doing, and I'll
have no more to say.

John
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