Reg: Getting File Type in Hg

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 14:02 +0200, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> On 10/13/2011 01:55 PM, Petchimuthu wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >    I want to know the whether the committed the file type is binary or not
> >
> >    How can I  check the file type in mercurial?
> 
> Mercurial commit all files as binary.
> 
> Only in a few cases (mostly when showing diffs or choosing merge tools) 
> it looks at the file content to see if it is a text file. It do that by 
> looking for bytes with the value 0.

Right - internally Mercurial treats all files the same (or 'as binary').
But if you're curious about which files Mercurial thinks are binary for
diff and merge purposes, you can do:

hg locate "set:binary()"

with Mercurial 1.9.

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