[darcs-users] Re: more feedback on binary file detection

[Mark Stosberg]

On 2004-12-07, David Roundy <droundy at abridgegame.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 01:25:44AM +0000, Mark Stosberg wrote:
>> On 2004-12-06, Mark Stosberg <mark at summersault.com> wrote:
>> > On 2004-12-06, Bennett Todd <bet at rahul.net> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> 2004-12-06T15:10:44 Mark Stosberg:
>> >>> I tried to use Perl to find any ^Z or NUL characters in the file,
>> >>> and it didn't find any.
>> 
>> There is something strange going on with my particular case:
>> 
>> I just used 'cp' to duplicate the file, and darcs no longer thinks it's
>> binary. (Unfortunately I can't share the files to examine).
>> 
>> However, if I 'cp' the file back to the same name, darcs thinks it's
>> binary again. I'm using the default 'binaries' file, and this is a '.pm'
>> file, which shouldn't be picked up as binary.
>
> Is the filename perhaps non-secret? 

Thanks for the help David. The filename is ShelterMgmt.pm

> What happens if you delete (or rather  mv to a different location) your _darcs/prefs/binaries file?

Good idea. I tried this to double check. Same result.

    Mark