Re: BUG(?): "svn diff" behaves incorrectly on symbolic links pointing to binary files

On 2005-06-14 22:42:13 -0500, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> This behavior has nothing to do with symlinks. If you 'svn add' a
> text file, then replace its contents with binary data, Subversion
> never finds out that it changed from text to binary, and will happily
> diff it (unhappily for the user, of course).

Concerning this point, I think this is a bug (but a different one):
if in the diff, there are non-printable characters, then they should
be filtered out when the output is a tty. Otherwise this can mess up
the terminal. (I'm not sure whether this problem is unix-specific or
more general...)

Other unix commands already do such kind of things, e.g. less (for
file contents), and ls and find (for filenames). Some commands (e.g.
diff and grep) just detect binary files, but this is not sufficient.

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