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Gianni Mariani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mark D. Baushke wrote:
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> >Adrian Constantin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> >If someone wanted to hack in an automagical
> >recognition system that could be enabled for
> >binary file types, I suppose we could consider
> >adding it.
> >
>
> It already exists, it's called "file" !
>
> $ file xx.cpp
> xx.cpp: ASCII C++ program text
> $ file dialog.gif
> dialog.gif: GIF image data, version 89a, 28 x 28
>
> it appears that it returns a line with "text" if the file is
> considered text.
>
> I think that would be fairly trivial to add to cvs.
If someone wants to write a patch that will run the
equivalent of 'file' on new source files to determine that
the file needs -kb by default, that would be a useful
extension to cvs client mode for both 'cvs add' and 'cvs
import' cases.
-- Mark
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