Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: merging interface

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:10:39 +0000, Bruce Stephens 
<address@hidden> said:

monotone> Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <address@hidden> writes:
monotone> 
monotone> > Also, there's an issue that I didn't see raised at all:
monotone> > how do we deal with binary files?
monotone> 
monotone> I guess if only one branch changes a binary file, then a
monotone> best guess is presumably that the changed version is the
monotone> right choice.  Otherwise I guess you want all the versions.

Agreed, but how does monotone know if a file is binary?  I know
there's a mechanism to *guess*, but it's not used very much at all, at
least last I looked...

Cheers,
Richard

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