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diff --git a/doc/devblog/day_360__annex.largefiles_mimetype/comment_4_70c337d91f8d0458927c111763041118._comment b/doc/devblog/day_360__annex.largefiles_mimetype/comment_4_70c337d91f8d0458927c111763041118._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..51bff8488 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/devblog/day_360__annex.largefiles_mimetype/comment_4_70c337d91f8d0458927c111763041118._comment @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 4""" + date="2016-03-28T13:22:35Z" + content=""" +For the simple reason that git-annex doesn't know the mime type of a file +before it downloads a copy. + +There are some more complicated reasons involving preferred content +expressions needing to evaluate the same way in different repos, which +can be on different computers with different versions of the magic +database, etc. +"""]] |