[Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] Re: False "binary" files

[Stefan Monnier]

> 1) Extend diffutils to handle various cases like this and standartize
>    use of these enhanced diffutils.
> 2) Implement support for multiple diffutils in tla, where the archive
>    would somehow state which ones it needs and which ones should be used
>    for different files in the archive.

Nb 2 is clearly the most flexible option.
It could even be used internally to replace the .arch-ids subdirectory with
a .arch-ids file with a specialized merge/diff algorithm (which would mirror
the order-agnostic diff/merge currently used for directories).


        Stefan