Re: How does Subversion decide what gets automatically merged?

On Aug 10, 2007, at 07:55, Rainer Sokoll wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 08:48:17AM -0400, Cem Karan wrote:
>
>> Do you know the exact file types it thinks of as plain text? I
>> mean, does
>> it look at a file, determine that it is all 7-bit printable
>> ASCII, and from
>> that guess that it is text, or is there a master list of filename
>> types that
>> it looks at and guesses from that which are text?
>
> The Book says: it's based on the MIME type:
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.forcvs.binary-and-
> trans.html

Yes, but as it says at the end of that page, svn import will
automatically assign an svn:mime-type to a file based on some magic
which is not described. In any case, you can bypass the magic by
defining in your ~/.subversion/config file which filename extensions
should be mapped to which MIME types.

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Received on Sat Aug 11 02:22:14 2007