On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 10:47:36AM +0100, Philip Martin wrote: > Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> writes: > > So setting a binary mime-type on empty files by default is really not > > a great idea. Even from the end-user perspective, not just in the test > > suite. If people set it manually then they can deal with the consequences. > > The user can configure things like auto-props, external diff, etc. in > such a way that the testsuite would fail. We allow these configurations > because the user may have legitimate reasons for wanting Subversion to > behave this way. The testsuite doesn't use the user or system values, > it uses its own values that are known to work. > > Why is the magic database different? Perhaps there are users that want > empty files to have a particular mime type automatically?
Fair enough. For the tests I suppose we'd want a DB that returns either "text/plain" or "application/octet-stream", but no other mime-types?
