[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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