Binary file support

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:10:28AM -0700, Robey Pointer wrote:
<snip>
> >diff's heuristic for 'binary' is reported to be 'contains NUL in the
> >first 1k'.  For text diffing, another useful test is 'contains VT-102
> >control characters'.
> 
> I think bzr should have a property on each file indicating whether it  
> is text or binary.  Even if we end up weaving every filetype, it may  
> be useful info for other reasons (like not bothering to "diff" binary  
> files).  EIBTI.
> 
> But I think it's perfectly okay to guess the filetype when adding it,  
> as long as the user can change that type later.  The heuristics above  
> sound likely to work in most cases.

That sounds suspiciously like svn guessing the mimetype on add. Is that
to much for bzr?

Wouter van Heyst