Re: svnlook diff fails on binary files:

Karl Fogel wrote:
>
> Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com> writes:
> > 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.
>
> That's always been on the roadmap, for Post-1.0. It's not a huge
> amount of work, but also not clear to me how it would help this
> particular situation (?)...

Well, the file would be noted as a binary file and unless there
was a specific diff program configured for it, /usr/bin/diff
wouldn't be run on it.

Blair

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Received on Sun Nov 10 04:09:42 2002