From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:19:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] introduce config core.binaryCheckFirstBytes for xdiff-interface
Message-ID: <7vodge2mxm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070907191421.5526.qmail@f74fa18bc10c8f.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>

Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> writes:

> xdiff-interface uses a hardcoded value of 8000 bytes to check from
> the top of data whether to handle it as binary content.  If a NULL
> character appears after the first 8000 bytes, git won't notice,

If the user has to set this to suit git better for a particular
project, I think the same effort is better spent on setting up
the attribute for that file so that git does not have to guess
the type, no?