[darcs-users] binary changes in interactive mode
Matteo Vaccari
vaccari at pobox.com
Sun Jun 13 12:05:57 UTC 2004
Hi everybody,
I discovered Darcs a few days ago and i'm hooked already. I feel the
goodness I feel when I learn to use a good tool, just like I felt years
ago when learning to use Emacs. But I digress.
One thing that I find confusing is why Darcs insists on showing me
binary diffs, for instance when I do "darcs record" without the "-a"
flag. What is the use of that? In most cases I checked in a new
version of a .jar or a .dll. There is nothing intelligible about the
hex dump of a .jar file, that scrolls for a couple of minutes on my
console before stopping. Wouldn't it be more useful to just ask
"Confirm changes to binary file such-and-such?". Am I missing something?
Matteo
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