Details
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Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Duplicate
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1.0.1
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None
Description
I've got this JNLP file which is XML but I've marked its mime-type as
application/x-java-jnlp-file so that the browser will launch Java Web
Start. However, now I get this when I try to diff the file:
Index: jws/Foo.jnlp
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Cannot display: file marked as a binary type.
svn:mime-type = application/x-java-jnlp-file
I'd like to convince Subversion that this particular type is actually
text.
This could be done:
1. by adding "application/x-java-jnlp-file" to the internal list of text-types
[suggested by Ben Collins-Sussman]
2. to allow the client's run-time 'config' file to define a custom list of
textual mime-types [suggested by Ben Collins-Sussman]
3. by adding an extra property svn:text to indicate once and for all whether a
file is to be treated as text or not [suggested by Rob Oxspring].
Rob continues:
The algorithm would become:
if svn:text is set
treat as svn:text value
else if mimetype looks like text
treat as text
else
treat as binary
This would finally stop svn conflating the two questions "is the file text
based?" and "what's the mime-type", while keeping the current heuristic as
a backup. It also means that the configuration is server side from the
beginning and doesn't need users to change their config files to get the
benefit. If people want to set it using auto-props they can do.
It has a side effect that the option can be configured on a file by file
basis, but I'm not 100% sure that this is a bad thing anyway.
Any of these seem fine to me. However, since I find the client config file to
be an ongoing cause of broken MIME types and eol-styles at our organization
and feel it should be moved to the server, my bias in this particular issue
would be for one that was server-based (which means I probably lean towards
solution #1).
See users@subversion.tigris.org thread: Textual binaries
Original issue reported by wohler
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