On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 08:25, David Glasser <glas...@davidglasser.net> wrote: > I'm not a MIME expert, but isn't there a thing where you can add > key/value pairs after a MIME type which customize its meaning? Maybe > that could be used for this?
Please, no. Isn't the fact that charset is munged into svn:mime-type already sufficiently ugly? Placing these two independent values into the same property together is a hindrance to scriptability. It clashed badly with autoprops syntax for *years* (fixed in 1.7, I hear).You're advocating more of the same? Maybe it's just me, but I find it easier to work with systems that: - separate concerns - keep their features orthogonal - keep atomic values atomic, rather than munging them together into arbitrary blobs (In this, I guess I'm obeying a kind of "normal form"). After many years of using Subversion, I've come to the conclusion that svn:mime-type is best understood as a way to keep Apache happy and able to support read-only repository browsing. The fact that this property is also used to determine ability to merge, diff, and blame is an unfortunate wart. // Ben
