[Tfug] Version Control

[Zack Williams]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> But, how does it decide that it is a text file?  By *hoping*
> the file name indicates itself as such?  (i.e., *.c, *.txt, etc.)

I would assume it uses some sort of "magic" like the file(1) command
uses to determine content type.

I haven't had file mangling issues with any modern DVCS, as that would
obviously break their hash-centric nature of operation.

- Zack