[svnbook] r4042 committed - * en/book/ch03-advanced-topics.xml...
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Revision: 4042
Author: cmpilato at gmail.com
Date: Mon Aug 29 10:31:57 2011
Log: * en/book/ch03-advanced-topics.xml
Mention libmagic by name in a footnote.
http://code.google.com/p/svnbook/source/detail?r=4042
Modified:
/trunk/en/book/ch03-advanced-topics.xml
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--- /trunk/en/book/ch03-advanced-topics.xml Mon Aug 29 08:20:31 2011
+++ /trunk/en/book/ch03-advanced-topics.xml Mon Aug 29 10:31:57 2011
@@ -1309,10 +1309,12 @@
your file's extension could be found, Subversion will fall
back to heuristic algorithms to determine the file's MIME
type. Depending on how it is built, Subversion 1.7 can make
- use of file scanning libraries to detect a file's type based
- on its content. Failing all else, Subversion will employ its
- own very basic heuristic to determine whether the file
- contains nontextual content. If so, it automatically sets the
+ use of file scanning libraries<footnote><para>Currently,
+ libmagic is the support library used to accomplish
+ this.</para></footnote> to detect a file's type based on its
+ content. Failing all else, Subversion will employ its own
+ very basic heuristic to determine whether the file contains
+ nontextual content. If so, it automatically sets the
<literal>svn:mime-type</literal> property on that file to
<literal>application/octet-stream</literal> (the generic
<quote>this is a collection of bytes</quote> MIME type). Of
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