Re: CVS corrupts binary files ...

[Gianni Mariani]

Mark D. Baushke wrote:

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> Adrian Constantin <address@hidden> writes:
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> If someone wanted to hack in an automagical
> recognition system that could be enabled for
> binary file types, I suppose we could consider
> adding it.
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It already exists, it's called "file" !

$ file xx.cpp
xx.cpp: ASCII C++ program text
$ file dialog.gif
dialog.gif: GIF image data, version 89a, 28 x 28

it appears that it returns a line with "text" if the file is considered 
text.

I think that would be fairly trivial to add to cvs.