Re: [Monotone-devel] Extensions to automation, again

[Thomas Keller]

Nathaniel Smith schrieb:
> Monotone doesn't actually have any concept of "binary/non-binary".
> What do you want this to return?  When you ask it for a textual diff
> then it makes a guess at whether this is actually a good idea (using
> some somewhat obscure and probably imperfect logic), but this is just
> a heuristic that it applies on the fly.

Hrm I didn't know that, I thought there were different delta algorithms 
for text vs binary, but maybe I was mistaken there. I don't even know if 
there is a good algorithm to distinguish text from binary other than 
looking out for \0 (this would come into my mind, given the fact that 
utf-8 "text" could contain bytes of letters which probably wouldn't be 
recognized as such).

Have you seen my other mail regarding mtn:manual_merge? For this case I 
second Chad's request for "dead" attributes in the way of not being able 
to add or remove (or even see) those "internal" attributes of a file.

Thomas.

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