From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:10:08 GMT
Subject: Re: mingw, windows, crlf/lf, and git
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702141208020.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702132127330.3604@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 0x00 - which is the only one mmfile_is_binart() uses - is arguably the 
> "most binary" one, of course, but it might be interesting to give 
> different weights to the whole range.. In particular, especially for 
> small files, the fact that there is no 0x00 byte in no way indicates 
> that it's not "binary".

Last time I checked, the text files never had lines longer than 200 
characters (I chose this intentionally large). So, it might be a good 
heuristic to check the maximal line length, and refuse to believe that 
it's text once a certain (configurable) threshold is reached.

Ciao,
Dscho