cmpilato@collab.net writes:
> Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> I hear it. I totally dig the idea of the patch, and actually *want
> this* for myself in 'add' and 'import'. Yes, definitely, the default
> is off (meaning, what, that there's nothing but commented-out stuffs
> written to new .subversion areas?), but I soooooo want to import a
> website have my JPEGs be image/jpeg, my PNGs image/png, my HTML
> text/html, and so on, without having to write a custom script or do
> the work by hand.
I am so +1 on that.
-Fitz, finally starting to catch up on his dev@subversion email
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Brian W. Fitzpatrick <fitz_at_red-bean.com> http://www.red-bean.com/fitz/
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Received on Fri Aug 22 05:16:36 2003