Re: [Monotone-devel] Two new lists to get commit logs

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 11:15:52PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Richard Levitte:
> 
> > I was a bit clumsy in the way I wrote that.  My question is, how do I
> > correctly detect a binary blob from text?
> 
> A few GNU tools use the presence of NUL characters to identify binary
> files (some of them only in the first few K of the file, AFAIK).

Yeah.

And as Olivier found, it helps if your existing guess_binary function
doesn't contain a C-style string of "characters that imply binary", of
which the first element is NUL ;-)

This is fixed on mainline.

-- Nathaniel

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