On 12/18/2014 1:54 PM, Ryan Hathaway wrote:
> Bill,
>
> Subversion uses a heuristic binary-detection library, but it is not
> perfect. The most important thing, might be to make sure that the
> svn:mime-type is set to "application/octet-stream" for all your binary
> files to ensure SVN uses the correct behaviors when you interact with
> those files. You may want to set up autoprops on certain file
> extensions, or maybe even all files, if that makes sense in your scenario.
>
> http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#binary-files
Great info. Thank you so much. Is autoprops something I should to on the
server side? Or is there a way to set it up on the client (Tortoise) side?
One of the things that the merge operation does is to create some
properties so we can use things like revision graphs. Is there more to
it than that?
> >>> Bill McCormick <wpmccormick-Re5JQEeQqe8_at_public.gmane.orgm> 12/18/14
> 2:43 PM >>>
> Hello,
>
> My team has been using tortoise-svn and subversion to rev control some
> projects where file format is binary. We're using a required lock
> property and svn-hooks to manage and control and we have a change branch
> where we we have been working.
>
> I was hoping I might ask if there is anyone in the group that uses svn
> like this, and ask for some experienced guidance for merging (maybe it's
> not a merge with binaries?) back to the trunk (we call it STABLE). Is
> there something in particular that we need to pay attention to or steps
> that we should consider when merging binary files from a change branch
> back to the trunk?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
>
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