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Re: dealing with binary files

From: Bill McCormick <wpmccormick_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 15:53:13 -0600

On 12/18/2014 2:37 PM, Bill McCormick wrote:
> 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?

So I already took care of this. I forgot that I was already using
aut-props to set the needs-lock.

>
> 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?
>
>

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