[kepler-dev] binary files in kepler-docs

[Christopher Brooks]

Hi Matt,

I've created $PTII/doc/coding/svn-config-auto-props.txt
that includes a number of mime properties.

I merged in your entries, a few of mine and the list from
http://www.apache.org/dev/svn-eol-style.txt

I've updated $PTII/doc/coding/eclipse.htm to include reference
to svn-config-auto-props.txt

_Christopher

Matt Jones wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> 
> This  is a 'feature' in SVN that is similar to the need to use -kb on 
> binary files in CVS, with the difference that subversion doesn't change 
> the file on the server, so mistakes are easily remedied by changing the 
> mime property setting.  See:
> http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#auto-props
> 
> Thus, each svn client is responsible for setting its mime type correctly 
> on the files it uploads using svn add or svn import.  If a mime type is 
> not set, the file is assumed to be text.  The default SVN client can be 
> configured to automatically set some files to a given mime type by using 
> the 'auto-props' feature of the client.  Each developer must configure 
> this is their .subversion/config file.  The relevant section from mine 
> is pasted below.
> 
> Once a file is added or imported incorrectly, the only way to fix it is 
> to commit the mime property correctly on the file so that line endings 
> aren't touched (as you described), then recheck it out (delete your 
> working copy then update it).
> 
> More details here:
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.advanced.props.html#svn.advanced.props.auto
> 
> Matt
> 
> # ------------ Snippet from ~/.subversion/config
> #
> ### Automatic properties are defined in the section 'auto-props'.
> enable-auto-props = yes
> 
> ### Section for configuring automatic properties.
> [auto-props]
> ### The format of the entries is:
> ###   file-name-pattern = propname[=value][;propname[=value]...]
> ### The file-name-pattern can contain wildcards (such as '*' and
> ### '?').  All entries which match will be applied to the file.
> ### Note that auto-props functionality must be enabled, which
> ### is typically done by setting the 'enable-auto-props' option.
> # *.c = svn:eol-style=native
> # *.cpp = svn:eol-style=native
> # *.h = svn:eol-style=native
> # *.dsp = svn:eol-style=CRLF
> # *.dsw = svn:eol-style=CRLF
> # *.sh = svn:eol-style=native;svn:executable
> # *.txt = svn:eol-style=native
> *.png = svn:mime-type=image/png
> *.jpg = svn:mime-type=image/jpeg
> *.gif = svn:mime-type=image/gif
> *.tif = svn:mime-type=image/tiff
> *.tiff = svn:mime-type=image/tiff
> *.pdf = svn:mime-type=application/pdf
> *.doc = svn:mime-type=application/msword
> *.xls = svn:mime-type=application/excel
> *.ppt = svn:mime-type=application/powerpoint
> *.gz = svn:mime-type=application/x-gzip
> *.tgz = svn:mime-type=application/x-compressed
> *.zip = svn:mime-type=application/zip
> *.avi = svn:mime-type=video/avi
> *.mov = svn:mime-type=video/quicktime
> *.mpg = svn:mime-type=video/mpeg
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Timothy McPhillips 
> <tmcphillips at ucdavis.edu <mailto:tmcphillips at ucdavis.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Matt,
> 
>     The last couple PDF files I've committed to kepler-docs have not
>     been recognized automatically as binary files.  (I noticed this
>     because this wreaks havoc with downloads via Firefox.)  I noticed
>     that the file 20080513-jones-kepler.pdf file you checked into
>     meetings/2008_05_13_Stakeholders_mtg/presentations also appears to
>     be missing the 'svn:mime-type : application/octet-stream' property.
>      Any idea what is going on?
> 
>     I seemed to be able to fix this for one file using the command:
> 
>     svn propset svn:mime-type 'application/octet-stream'
>     bieda-chip2-stakeholders-mtg-2008.pdf
> 
>     and committing.  It downloads properly in Firefox, now, but the file
>     allen-bap-stakeholders-mtg-2008.pdf still downloaded as binary
>     garbage in the Firefox window even after I set and committed the
>     property.  I must not understand what is going on...
> 
>     Tim
> 
> 
> 
> 
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