Re: svnlook diff fails on binary files:

Philip Martin wrote:
> Changing Subversion to avoid running diff on binary files will solve
> most problems, leaving only the case where Subversion classifies a
> file as text and diff classifies it as binary. However such a case
> will probably cause problems when attempting a three-way merge during
> update, so the user is advised to make sure Subversion's file
> classification matches that of diff.

If we're going to do this, then maybe we should design in a more
general diff scheme, where you can specify different diff programs
for different mime-types.

So you could have an xmldiff for XML files, etc.

Blair

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