Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk> writes:
> We have client side code that prevents those keywords being set on
> binary files. As far as I know, it doesn't prevent someone setting
> the keywords on a non-binary file, and then changing the file to
> binary. It's not clear to me whether we should ignore the keywords on
> a binary file. If we do choose to ignore them I am a little uneasy
> about the behaviour being distributed in lots of places in the code,
> far better to pass some sort of "binaryness" indicator to
> copy_and_translate.
I don't like the idea of ignoring them at all. Surely there are
binary formats in the world that can tolerate (say) keyword expansion.
This does not contradict the client-side user protections. Having
client-side code to prevent setting translation properties on binary
files makes sense, because it's far more likely to happen accidentally
than not. One can still override with -F, or by a workaround of
temporarily resetting the mime-type, if they really need to.
Which means that if we *do* receive a translation property on a
non-text file, someone probably went through extra trouble to put it
there! Therefore, we shouldn't ignore it.
-Karl
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Received on Sun Nov 16 23:23:38 2003