[File] file 5.40 breaks subversion tests

[Dr. Werner Fink]

Hi,

looks like file does not detect e.g. ASCII text without newlines anymore

From outside of a build system with file 5.39

 /suse/werner> file /abuild/oscbuild/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/dev/shm/svn-test-work/working_copies/commit_tests-9/A/D/bloo
 /abuild/oscbuild/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/dev/shm/svn-test-work/working_copies/commit_tests-9/A/D/bloo: ASCII text, with no line terminators

from within the build system with file 5.40

 abuild at noether:~/rpmbuild/BUILD/subversion-1.14.1/subversion/tests/cmdline> file svn-test-work/working_copies/commit_tests-7/A/B/E/bloo
svn-test-work/working_copies/commit_tests-7/A/B/E/bloo: data

it is the same file, but different results

 /suse/werner> cat /abuild/oscbuild/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/dev/shm/svn-test-work/working_copies/commit_tests-9/A/D/bloo && echo
 hi

for longer strings it works

 abuild at noether:~/rpmbuild/BUILD/subversion-1.14.1/subversion/tests/cmdline> file svn-test-work/working_copies/commit_tests-56/A/D/H/gloo
 svn-test-work/working_copies/commit_tests-56/A/D/H/gloo: ASCII text, with no line terminators

 abuild at noether:~/rpmbuild/BUILD/subversion-1.14.1/subversion/tests/cmdline> cat svn-test-work/working_copies/commit_tests-56/A/D/H/gloo && echo
 hello

Werner

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