On Dec 26, 2007, at 13:22, Henrik Sundberg wrote:
> I have a repository in which lots of documents were imported with
> wrong mime-types.
> Is it possible to correct this afterwards, for all revisions? How?
>
> It doesn't seem correct to do it for the oldest revision of the file,
> since subversion doesn't trace (at the original place that is) when
> files are copied.
> It doesn't seem correct to do it for the newest revision of the file,
> since the log only keeps the changes of the file done in my branch (or
> in ancestors, not those done in a parallell branch).
> And I don't think the parameters for svn propset can help me out.
>
> Is a tool like the one Ryan recommended for another problem needed?:
> http://svn.borg.ch/svndumptool/
If you want to affect all revisions throughout history, then
svndumptool's "Transform-prop" feature seems to be exactly what you
want. You would dump the repository, transform the svn:mime-type
property of all files, and load the modified dumpfile into a new
repository. During this time you would need to take the repository
offline to ensure nobody else makes any changes to it. I expect this
would also invalidate all existing working copies and you would need
to check out new working copies.
Another option would be to just set the correct svn:mime-type in the
HEAD revision. No fiddling with dumpfiles is necessary for that, the
repository stays online as usual, and your existing working copies
continue to function normally (no need to check out new ones). For
batch changes to properties, svn_apply_autoprops.py can help. See the
original:
http://svn.collab.net/viewvc/svn/tags/1.4.6/contrib/client-side/
svn_apply_autoprops.py?view=markup
Or an allegedly better version:
http://matt-good.net/2005/12/23/new-and-improved-svn-apply-autoprops-
py-now-with-more-svk/
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Received on Thu Dec 27 03:39:05 2007