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Re: how to add $Id$ automatically

From: Soo-Hyun Choi <s.choi_at_hackers.org.uk>
Date: 2007-11-19 16:09:09 CET

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>
> Auto-props only take effect when a file is initially added to your
> repository. It does not affect files already in your repository. You
> need to set the svn:keywords property on those files.
>

Thanks for the information!

>
> BTW, be very careful with what you've done there. You've told your
> client to apply those keywords to *all* files. If you have binary
> files (MS Word, images, executables, etc.) you may unwittingly corrupt
> them by enabling keywords on them.
>

Ah! What do you mean by corrupting those files unwittingly with that option?
Does this mean that if I set the option as the above and add some MS Word
(or executable) files to SVN repository, then it will corrupt the files?

Soo-Hyun
Received on Mon Nov 19 16:09:39 2007

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