Alternate DUMP format question

[David Summers <da...@summersoft.fay.ar.us>]

I'm playing with an alternate DUMP format and would like to be able to 
quickly determine if a file is "binary" or "text" so I can tell "svnadmin 
dump" to encode the binary file on output.  I noticed that currently "svnadmin 
dump" just dumps the 8-bit output without checking.

What method or procedure could I use to effeciently determine what the 
data type is before I dump it out?

   Thanks!

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Re: Alternate DUMP format question

[Karl Fogel <kf...@newton.ch.collab.net>]

David Summers <da...@summersoft.fay.ar.us> writes:
> What method or procedure could I use to effeciently determine what the 
> data type is before I dump it out?

You could look for an `svn:mime-type' property.  Look at the
import/add code for more details; it tries to autodetect binary
files.  But since it has already done the work, you should just rely
on the mime-type as recorded in the repository.

-K

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