Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> writes:
> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
> > Garrett, keep in mind that 'svn import' *already* detects binary files
> > and sets svn:mime-type to application/x-octet-stream while
> > committing. That's why it sometimes prints "A (bin) foo.doc".
>
> Yes, but setting svn:mime-type for binary files serves a more
> fundamental purpose (avoiding merges and eol translation on
> non-textual files), so it seems like a reasonable special case to me.
I guess my take is -- hey, if we add Martin's auto-propset feature,
it would definitely be "turned off" by default.
I'm thinking about all the users who have repeatedly complained that
they don't like having to remember to set svn:eol-style=native every
time they add a new source-code file. Some people have suggested
"recursive" directory props as a solution (really hard to implement),
other have suggested a server-side configuration solution (also
possible, but it's a very large change). Martin's patch seems pretty
simple, effective, and low-impact.
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Received on Sun Aug 17 19:58:11 2003