Re: Re: Action request: mime-type of xml-dtd should be treated as text

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Scheffler <thomas.scheffler_at_uni-jena.de> writes:

 Thomas> Am Montag, 4. Februar 2008 schrieb Mark Irving:
>> I have a repository with a DTD file checked in and carrying the
>> property svn:mime-type value application/xml-dtd, the correct type
>> for it according to RFC 2043. It is inconvenient to do some
>> Subversion operations on it, such as "blame", because Subversion
>> thinks it is non-textual. It would be an improvement if XML mime
>> types were recognised as text, and specifically this one.
>> ...
>> Do others agree? Should this be entered as a formal SVN issue?

 Thomas> I would definitifly like to have "application/xml" be treated
 Thomas> as text, too.

Absolutely.

 Thomas> Maybe you can configure some mime-types that should be
 Thomas> handled like text. Or the better would be to have the "kb"
 Thomas> sticky bit of CVS come to subversion. So everything with it
 Thomas> is binary and everything without it is not.

It would make sense for the text-nature of files to be selectable.
One way would be a new property.

Another obvious approach is to tie it to the svn:eol-style property.
Clearly any file with that property is a text file. So Subversion
should treat it that way.

       paul

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Received on 2008-02-04 19:53:37 CET