On 7/27/06, Ming Zhang <mingz@ele.uri.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 22:47 +0200, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> > On Jul 27, 2006, at 19:58, Ming Zhang wrote:
> >
> > > I met a strange problem. I migrate my code tree from sf.net (CVS) to
> > > berlios (SVN). Then I found I have almost all binary files are broken.
> > > And seems svn can not even detect this. I feel SVN treat all these
> > > binary files as textual files.
> >
> > Are you sure the files aren't already broken in CVS? I haven't used
> > CVS, but I understand it's easy to corrupt binary files in CVS by
> > forgetting to tell CVS that they're binary.
>
> i just check out from cvs and these files are ok.
>
> >
> > Subversion treats all files as binary and won't muck with them unless
> > you tell it to. For example, if you tell it to do line-ending
> > conversion (svn:eol-style property) or keyword expansion
> > (svn:keywords property) it will do this, even on binary files; this
> > will probably destroy most kinds of binary files, so you should not
> > ask Subversion to do these kinds of operations on binary files.
>
> i never did this. in fact, i just know this today by googling because of
> this problem. :P
>
> >
> > There's also the matter of the MIME type (svn:mime-type property).
> > Have you set the MIME type of these files to a text/* MIME type or a
> > binary MIME type? A good MIME type for PDF files for example would be
> > application/pdf.
> >
> >
> > > For example, I have this pdf file Iometer.pdf.
> > >
> > > $ ll
> > > total 1052
> > > drwxrwxr-x 4 mingz mingz 4096 May 3 11:02 Docbook
> > > drwxrwxr-x 3 mingz mingz 4096 May 3 11:02 Iometer_Files
> > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 mingz mingz 988246 May 3 11:02 Iometer.pdf
> > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 mingz mingz 68529 May 3 11:02 Iometer.sxw
> > >
> > > Then I copy the correct file to overwrite it.
> > >
> > > $ cp ../../../branches/IOMETER-restruct/iometer/Docs/Iometer.pdf .
> > >
> > > See the file size changed.
> > >
> > > $ ll
> > > total 1056
> > > drwxrwxr-x 4 mingz mingz 4096 May 3 11:02 Docbook
> > > drwxrwxr-x 3 mingz mingz 4096 May 3 11:02 Iometer_Files
> > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 mingz mingz 992633 Jul 27 13:53 Iometer.pdf
> > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 mingz mingz 68529 May 3 11:02 Iometer.sxw
> > >
> > > But svn can not detect the file is changed.
> > >
> > > $ svn st
> > >
> > > How to correct this and let svn treat them as binary?
> >
> > That seems also to point towards improper svn:eol-style or
> > svn:keywords properties being used. What do you see if you say "svn
> > proplist -v Iometer.pdf"?
> >
>
> $ svn proplist -v Iometer.pdf
> Properties on 'Iometer.pdf':
> svn:keywords : Author Date Id Revision
> svn:eol-style : native
> i have this. i guess native is a default good choice?
Well, not in this case: you explicitly asked Subversion to treat your
binary file as texty... You could remove both properties and then copy
the undamaged file in. Maybe that helps? Also, the date on the file
needs to be newer than the date on the file when it is restored
through revert.
HTH,
Erik.
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Received on Thu Jul 27 23:04:32 2006