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diff --git a/doc/todo/wishlist:_annex.largefiles_support_for_mimetypes/comment_3_b2774d265de303143523607053811d23._comment b/doc/todo/wishlist:_annex.largefiles_support_for_mimetypes/comment_3_b2774d265de303143523607053811d23._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b2bcd87eb --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/wishlist:_annex.largefiles_support_for_mimetypes/comment_3_b2774d265de303143523607053811d23._comment @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://joeyh.name/" + ip="209.250.56.7" + subject="comment 3" + date="2014-08-12T18:58:49Z" + content=""" +I think that to support this, the annex.largefiles preferred content expression would need to be supplimented with checks not available in the normal preferred content language. + +In general, it's important that preferred content expressions be able to be evaluated without having the file content locally available, and it needs to be possible for a repository to evaluate the preferred content of a sibling repository and know if its sibling wants a file. These things would be defeated by any mime-based expressions. So such expressions should only be available in annex.largefiles and not in other preferred content expressions. + +Calling out to `file` or some other external program could work. Although speed can be important. If the assistant is seeing a file frequently change, it's not ideal for it to be repeatedly running `file` on it. There does not seem to be a pure haskell MIME type checking library available at present. +"""]] |