[Monotone-devel] Re: Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a weird taste...

[Bruce Stephens]

Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> monotone> It should do what it presumably does now at some point: if
> monotone> the file looks like binary, then regard it as such,
> monotone> otherwise, regard it as an ordinary text file and convert it.
>
> Does it really do that?  The only place where I've seen any attempt
> at guessing being done is the function guess_binary(), which is
> called in one place only (ls_certs(), for rename certs with binary
> value (what the hell *are* those, anyway?)).

Oh.  I haven't tried putting a binary file into monotone.  I was
assuming it would make a distinction, to avoid firing up emacs with
ediff to merge versions of binary files, for example.  Quite possibly
it doesn't, though.