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Re: Binary file checkin problem

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2005-05-19 23:30:33 CEST

On May 19, 2005, at 2:54 PM, Michael L Brown wrote:

>
> >You never want to set svn:keywords on a binary file, only source text
> >files. You may get replacements to occur that you don't want to that
> >will screw up the file.
>
> Unless I got misdirected somewhere, when a file is considered
> binary, keywords are supposed to be ignored, i.e., no substitution
> done. It certainly works that way in CVS.
>

Subversion is much safer than CVS in this regard. It will never
munge your data unless you explicitly ask it to. CVS is the
opposite; it will munge your data by default unless you remember to
tell it *not* to.

In this case, the only problem here is that Subversion allowed you
(or one of your users) to shoot yourself in the foot. You set
svn:eol-style and svn:keywords properties on a binary file, thereby
asking svn to alter the file contents. It did what you asked it to
do. Don't Do That.

It's already the case that if svn:mime-type is set to a binary type,
then 'svn propset' will refuse to set the svn:eol-style or
svn:keywords properties. But apparently there are other ways to get
them to co-exist... I suspect that the svn:mime-type is set *after*
the text-munging ones, then you can end up with all three properties
set at once. So if there's a bug here to report, it's perhaps that
we aren't doing enough to prevent foot-shooting. :-)

In general, be very careful about which files you ask Subversion to
munge. Don't do something like use the auto-props feature to
automatically set the text-munging properties on '*'. That's just
dangerous. Be specific instead: munge only specific file types.

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