Re: SVN:Keywords applies to application/octet-stream

On 26.04.2013 16:52, Carl Pettit wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> It used to work but now it is dangerously flawed. Applying
> SVN:Keywords to a directory used to apply keywords to files
> determined to contain text and ignored application/octet-stream i.e.
> executables. I had a colleague accost me complaining that his code no
> longer ran after a commit. On investigation it was discovered that
> the SVN:Keywords property had been applied to the executable. Is this
> a bug of have I got a setting wrong somewhere?

if you tell svn to substitute keywords, then that's what it does: you've
asked for it.

It's always been this way.

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.props.special.keywords.html

quote:
Of course, where binary file formats are concerned, you must always take
great care that any keyword substitution you introduce—fixed-length or
otherwise—does not violate the integrity of that format. While it might
sound easy enough, this can be an astonishingly difficult task for most
of the popular binary file formats in use today, and not something to be
undertaken by the faint of heart!

Stefan

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