Hi Paul, > > I wonder how sensible it would be to, say, slurp the first 100 bytes and see > > whether we start with a "{" (or some other heuristic) and, if so, try and > > parse the file as JSON etc. > > I think it would make diffoscope very slightly more useful if it could > fill in the gaps in MIME type detection for this and other cases.
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=2a758d3d0205e934ed6dffebb5d6462b00fe590d > If it turns out to be too expensive then it could have an option. Mo' options, mo' problems :) Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-