Re: "textual binary" MIME types (was Re: file locking and binary files)

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 12:46:20PM -0600, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@flatline.org.uk> writes:
> > Are there any plans to make svn_mime_type_is_binary() more configurable,
> > so that one can say "although this isn't text/*, I want to treat it that
> > way anyway"? I appreciate that this is a corner case.
>
> That sounds like a totally reasonable enhancement request. Maybe you
> can file an enhancement issue?

OK, I've filed new issue #994.

> My first intuition is that maybe we can just create a new property,
> like "svn:force-merge" or something. It's mere presence causes svn to
> unconditionally attempt a contextual merge. Are there other
> approaches?

That approach would work for me. The idea of keeping a list of
really-textual MIME-types in some configuration file somewhere (kind of
similar to global_ignores) is appealing from my point of view, but that
would be client-specific and it does feel as if it should live in the
repository.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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