Re: mime-types enhancement

Luigi Bai <lpb@focalpoint.com> writes:

> I'd like to propose an extension to the heuristics SVN uses to determine
> the mime-type of a new file. In particular, I'd like to propose a
> .subversion/mime-mappings file with the following format:

The only "heuristics" that Subversion uses is a check for NULL bytes
and ratio of upper-to-lower ASCII bytes in the first block of
data > 85%, and that only to say "this thing is binary
(application/x-octet-stream) or not". Auto-props support in the
configuration area does what you're talking about (and more).

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Received on Wed Feb 4 19:13:15 2004