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Re: [Monotone-devel] Two new lists to get commit logs
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Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Two new lists to get commit logs |
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Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:22:37 +0200 (CEST) |
In message <address@hidden> on Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:04:47 -0700, Nathaniel Smith
<address@hidden> said:
njs> On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 03:43:57AM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
wrote:
njs> > In message <address@hidden> on Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:36:54 -0600, Derek
Scherger <address@hidden> said:
njs> >
njs> > derek> Hmm... one thing that comes to mind is that monotone
njs> > derek> diff currently lists out "diffs" for binary files, which
njs> > derek> are sometimes rather large and might not really be what
njs> > derek> you want in your in-box.
njs> >
njs> > Hmm, true. What would be the best way to detect those? If I
njs> > can do that easily, it wouldn't be too hard for me to figure is
njs> > should print those diffs...
njs>
njs> Maybe fix the monotone bug that makes it happen? ;-)
I was a bit clumsy in the way I wrote that. My question is, how do I
correctly detect a binary blob from text? What can I assume? Can I
assume all the text is mainly ASCII, so anything with more than, say,
20% are bytes with the highest bit set, it's a binary? I'm definitely
not an expert at character encoding in all sorts of languages, so I
feel a bit unsafe in this area.
Either way, regardless of the place I would have to fix this, it comes
down to defining "what's a binary" in a computationally sane way. I
need help with idea here, please.
Cheers,
Richard
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- [Monotone-devel] Two new lists to get commit logs, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2005/04/13
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Two new lists to get commit logs, Derek Scherger, 2005/04/14
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Two new lists to get commit logs, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2005/04/14
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Two new lists to get commit logs, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/04/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Two new lists to get commit logs,
Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Two new lists to get commit logs, Florian Weimer, 2005/04/17
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Two new lists to get commit logs, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/04/17
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Two new lists to get commit logs, Nathan Myers, 2005/04/17
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Two new lists to get commit logs, Florian Weimer, 2005/04/18
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Two new lists to get commit logs, Asger Alstrup, 2005/04/15
Re: [Monotone-devel] Two new lists to get commit logs, Florian Weimer, 2005/04/18