What would make hg diff see a txt file as binary?

Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com
Fri Aug 29 22:19:06 UTC 2014


Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> writes:

> If any NUL byte appears in a file, Mercurial (and many other Unix tools
> including file) will report it as non-text.

Well, as I mentioned `file' did not report it as not-text.  So
apparently that is not what is going on.

It must be control chars eh?




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