Re: [Cvs-syncmail] Broke cvssyncmail [WAS: RE: CVS: xdoclet2/lib/rngconv/jars rngconv-20030225.jar,NONE,1.1]

[Fred L. D. Jr. <fd...@ac...>]

Aslak Hellesoy writes:
 > cvs-syncmail team: I just added a jar file (it's really a zip file in case
 > you don't know java). syncmail.py apparently thinks it's an ascii file. Is
 > this a known bug? (Couldn't find a trace for it in your bug tracker).

Please file a bug report for this.

syncmail currently uses a heuristic approach to determine whether a
file is binary as an optimization.  I expect this won't be hard to
fix, but it means every check-in email that gets generated will be
just a bit more resource-intensive on the CVS server.


  -Fred

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