On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > And at this point it becomes more and more tempting to have our > own internal diff generator, without relying on external diff. > > A midway compromise solution would be to detect if either file > is binary ourselves and not to call diff but always say "Binary > files difer". Umm.. Why not just say "if the line after the 'diff' line doesn't start with '@@ ', then it's a binary diff"? And not care at _all_ about what it says. We require unified diffs, and they _always_ start with '@@ ' after the header. No need to check anything else. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Sat Nov 19 03:15:07 2005
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