bzr 0.7 release candidate

[Martin Pool]

On 11 Jan 2006, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:

> > 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.

I think that would do well; I opened 
https://launchpad.net/products/bzr/+bug/6732 
for it.  

It's annoying and we should fix it soon but I don't think it needs to be
a last-minute fix for 0.7.

I'm going to move in Denys's statcache minimal fix and do that as
0.7rc2.

-- 
Martin
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