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

Thomas Scheffler wrote:
> What can be a good reason to store the same file over and over again, when
> data structure and content do not change? Is that a comon case now?

All files are stored on the Subversion server as binary (using a fairly
advanced scheme to track changes between versions), so this has nothing
to do with your complaint.

> I really like to have a diff and see right by svnnotify that just a two
> attributes changed their order if thats the case. If subversion makes a diff
> for it and stores it and I possibly can read it, why should I hang
> with "binary files differ"? What is so great about it?

You are missing the point. All files that have MIME types of
'application/*' are by definition binary:

        http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2046.txt

There is a MIME type, text/xml:

        http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2376.txt

which can be used for XML documents that are to be treated as text. It
would be wrong to make some exception for application/xml* which just
isn't 100% correct.

> So imho here is a huge loss in function if compared to CVS. And you did not
> convinced be so far that it is not.

CVS had virtually no support for binary types at all, so you are really
throwing out a red herring here...

John

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