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

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:40:38 +0300 (Jerusalem Daylight Time)

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baz themail wrote on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 at 12:32 -0700:
> Is there a way to automate it rather than doing it per file and per user
> configuration basis?
>

Use auto-props.

Daniel

> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>wrote:
>
> > steveking wrote on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 at 20:48 +0200:
> > > 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.
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > A quick test shows that 'svn diff' doesn't blow up on a UTF-16 file, so
> > I'm not sure what you mean by "can't handle as text". Could you give an
> > example?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> > > 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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