[MERGE REVIEW] Binary file handling

[Matthieu Moy]

Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> writes:

> Binary files are defined as files containing the NUL character (\x00) in
> their first 1024 bytes.  Reportedly, this is the heuristic used by diff.
> ~ This does, unfortunately, mean that UTF-16 files will be treated as
> binary.

Perhaps it would be worth adding a way to tell bzr "this is text/this
is binary" in the user-interface (and this means a meta-info in the
repository)?

-- 
Matthieu