Re: application/xml treated as binary

On Mar 31, 2008, at 00:48, Braden McDaniel wrote:

> I've noticed that setting a file's svn:mime-type to application/xml
> causes svn to treat the file as binary. This seems like a bug. Does
> svn
> treat all application/* as binary?

Subversion treats all non-"text/*" as binary, with a couple
exceptions; see:

http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#binary-files

The request to handle application/xml as text was discussed at length
last month; see this thread:

http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2008-02/0096.shtml

I'm afraid I don't remember the outcome of the discussion.

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Received on 2008-03-31 11:12:28 CEST