Re: svn commit: rev 2480 - trunk/subversion/clients/cmdline

On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 07:57:08AM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> kevin@tigris.org writes:
>
> > + " svn:ingore - A newline separated list of file patterns to ignore.\n"
>
> I think 'ingore' is a typo. Might mention that it's only for
> directories, too.

Ya Think? Will fix.

>
> > + " svn:executable - If present, make the file executable. (Any\n"
> > + " attempt to set this property on a directory will be
> > ignored.)\n"
>
> Or you might simply say, "for files only".

Well I was trying to be consistent with my upcoming patch for svn_wc_prop_set,
which actively ignores the property on directories (as opposed to erroring).

>
> > + " svn:mimetype - The mimetype of the file. Used to determine\n"
> > + " whether to merge the file, and how to serve it from Apache.",
>
> It might be useful to point out that if the value is anything other
> than text/*, our merge algorithm will assume it's a binary file.
>
Was thinking the same, but didn't want to make it into a novel. I'll add
something about that.

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