bzr 0.7 release candidate

[John Arbash Meinel]

Brett Calcott wrote:
>>Please test this and report any issues; if there are no major problems
>>this will be the 0.7 release later this week.
>>
> 
> 
> I've just started using this today. 2 things:
> 
> 1. Is it win32 compatible? It seems to work so far. I have been using
> the "jam-integration" branch.
> 

bzr.dev has almost all of the patches in my integration branch. 0.7 is
slightly out of date, but nothing dealing with win32 compatibility.

> 2. "bzr diff" still outputs diffs on binary files. This is really
> pretty icky on the win32 console. Beep beep beep etc. How hard would
> it be to fix this?
> 
> Cheers,
> Brett

We would have to detect that files are binary, which we don't have any
logic to do this yet. There are a few ways to do this, most commonly is
looking for ascii control characters in the first say 100 bytes of a
file. It isn't perfect, but I believe it is what grep and diff use.

Long term, we are thinking about adding file properties to indicate that
a file is binary, though that hasn't been decided yet.

John
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