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diff --git a/doc/todo/wishlist:_annex.largefiles_support_for_mimetypes/comment_4_d06a7c7f1a4fe78af548e2af2fbe8e2b._comment b/doc/todo/wishlist:_annex.largefiles_support_for_mimetypes/comment_4_d06a7c7f1a4fe78af548e2af2fbe8e2b._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c379c735f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/wishlist:_annex.largefiles_support_for_mimetypes/comment_4_d06a7c7f1a4fe78af548e2af2fbe8e2b._comment @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 4""" + date="2016-02-03T19:08:38Z" + content=""" +Update: There are now separate parsers for preferred content and +annex.largefiles expressions, so this could be put in only the +annex.largefiles parser. + +I kind of like the idea of letting an external program be run +to test if the file is large. Of course, it would be up to the user to +make the external program fast enough. + +The expression could be something like "checkprogram=foo". Since +expressions have simple word-based tokenization, no parameters +would be able to be passed to the program (except the file to check). + +For getting mime type, the best way seems to be to use +<http://hackage.haskell.org/package/magic>. Using `magicOpen [MagicMimeType]` +I got it to probe mime types for files. + +Since libmagic won't be available everywhere, it would have to be a build flag, +and if a git-annex not built with support for it is fed an expression with +"magic=", it would have to error out when parsing the expression. + +Of course, these options are not mutually exclusive.. +"""]] |