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Re: "textual binary" MIME types (was Re: file locking and binary files)

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_newton.ch.collab.net>
Date: 2002-11-17 22:22:20 CET

Eric Gillespie <epg@pretzelnet.org> writes:
> Along with 100 other types, i'm sure. Maintaining a list in
> svn_mime_type_is_binary is madness, though madness that i suppose
> must be tolerated until the mechanism for retrieving
> configuration data from the repository is implemented so the list
> can be maintained in the repository configuration.

I don't know if it's really 100 other types, but maintaining a list in
svn_mime_type_is_binary() doesn't strike me as madness. Subversion
has to maintain it somewhere, after all.

In any case, as you point out, it's our best strategy until some we
use some other strategy :-).

-K

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