Re: problems with checking a text file: svn thinks that it is a binary

Karl Fogel wrote:
> "baz themail" <bazthemail_at_gmail.com> writes:
>> When adding a new dos text file with extension ".txt", svn thinks that it is a
>> binary. Is there anyway to configure that? Is it mime-type related?
>
> 'svn propset svn:mime-type text/plain yourfile.txt'

Be careful with that. A text file can be encoded in utf-16 (unicode),
and Subversion can't handle that as text. If your file is unicode, then
you have to live with the fact that Subversion treats it as binary.
And then don't set the svn:mime-type property to text/plain!

Stefan

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Received on 2008-09-20 20:49:28 CEST