Binary file support

[Jan Hudec]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 11:46:25 -0700, Robey Pointer wrote:
> On 13 Oct 2005, at 11:13, Wouter van Heyst wrote:
> >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?
> 
> What do they use the mimetype for?  That sounds like overkill; I  
> can't imagine needing to know more than text-vs-binary.

Besides text-vs-binary, they only use it for better buzzword compliance.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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