Re: commit-email.pl: supressing diff for certain filetypes?

On Mar 9, 2006, at 22:20, Sean McBride wrote:

> I am using the commit-email.pl script to receive emails about
> changes to
> our repository. It is great!
>
> The only problem is that it likes to diff .pdf files, resulting in
> huge
> emails of mostly hex garbage.
>
> Can it be told to only diff files with (or without) certain filename
> extensions?

Subversion will only diff files with text/* MIME types, so you need
to ensure that your PDFs get into the repository with the application/
pdf MIME type. Subversion's auto-props and pre-commit hook features
can help you get this set properly on all new files:

<http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#auto-props>

For files already in your repository, there are scripts which can help:

<http://svn.collab.net/viewvc/svn/tags/1.3.0/contrib/client-side/
svn_apply_autoprops.py?view=markup>

<http://matt-good.net/2005/12/23/new-and-improved-svn-apply-autoprops-
py-now-with-more-svk/>

In fact, in trying to test this problem just now, PDFs do get added
as application/octet-stream for me, so svnlook (and therefore commit-
email.pl) does not produce a diff. Perhaps this is a recent change
(I'm using Subversion 1.3.0) or perhaps there's another reason why
your PDFs are getting into your repository with a text/* MIME type.
Either way, you can fix it with the above.

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Received on Thu Mar 9 23:05:15 2006