Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] and RFC: binary files merging and hook

[Glen Ditchfield]

On Friday 10 June 2005 05:04, rghetta wrote:
> As I see it, there are three distinct issues to handle:
> - mapping file extensions (and/or content) to mime-types
> - mapping mime-types to merge/diff tools
> - assigning mime-types to files, and handling them in monotone.
>
> The first two tasks can be accomplished by using a bit of lua glue to
> read mappings from configuration files.

Or use the lua glue to hook into the 'file' command, on Unix.  Or to hook into 
the Universal Type Identifier system, on Mac OS X.  (The point being to get 
someone else to do most of the work of type mapping.)