Why not just ask the user to explicitly specify the type if there is any
confusion?
This is what cvsgui does, and it works well for me.
Rick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Branko �ibej" <brane@xbc.nu>
To: "Alan Shutko" <ats@acm.org>
Cc: <cmpilato@collab.net>; <dev@subversion.tigris.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: Ascii/binary detection.
> Alan Shutko wrote:
>
> >cmpilato@collab.net writes:
> >
> >>The point is that some work needs to be done to create the
> >>Subversion Binariness Heuristic, and your suggestions are good ones.
> >>
> >
> >I don't have any specific suggestions here, but it would be good when
> >deciding the heuristic to take a bunch of non-english text files
> >(esp. CJK in various encodings) and try to make sure they aren't
> >always seen as binary.
> >
> I agree. But if we can't be sure, we have to default to binary, so that
> even if we're wrong, the file doesn't get munged during commit.
>
>
> >Extremely long lines also needs some judgement, because of people who
> >create text files where they use a newline per paragraph.
> >
> True, that's why I suggested checking line length as a last resort. If
> we're cautious and mark the file binary unless we're sure it's not,
> there's no harm done.
>
>
> Brane
>
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