On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 01:57:16PM +0100, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to bring up an old issue here: > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2089 > I've just bumped into this, and first it was really confusing why would svn > blame work with one xml file, but not with the other, as the > Skipping binary file: 'reference/apc/book.xml' > wasn't really helpful. > I understand that the discussion back in 2004 didn't reached an agreement > about how to resolve the issue, but could we at least change the error > message to something like: > Skipping binary file: 'reference/apc/book.xml' as binary mime-type was > found in revision X, use --force to proceed. > > This would at least lessen the confusion on the users part. > > ps: please cc me to the replies as I'm not subscribed to the list.
Sure, this is a small but useful improvement, and also serves as a reference to star wars (ep. 4 to 6 only of course :) I've made the message say the follwing (in http://svn.apache.org/r1441017): Skipping binary file (use --force to treat as text): 'foo/bar.xml' Are you happy enough with this change being shipped in Subversion 1.8 when it is released? I don't think this qualifies as a bug fix we must backport to the 1.7 series. This change affects translations, which are rarely updated on release branches and I'd rather avoid breaking them.
