On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 06:16:03AM -0500, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Justin Erenkrantz <jus...@erenkrantz.com > >wrote: > > > > > I thought we treated application/xml as text at one time? -- justin > > > > > > > Yes, we did...and Ben -1'ed it back in 2004. See: > > > > > http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=462&dsMessageId=374218 > > > > I guess...but...really? Is the only way for a user to override this is > to > > manually set their local auto-props? *sigh* -- justin > > Perhaps we should treat mime-types that contain 'charset=UTF-8' > as text by default? libmagic is able to detect the charset AFAIK. > Our code currently removes charset information from the mime-type > returned by libmagic. > > I don't really like the idea of adding yet another special case > to our definition of what a "text" mime-type is. But it might > be worth doing this if it impacts a lot of people. > % file -i -k index.shtml index.shtml: application/xml; charset=us-ascii Not all of us use UTF-8, but yes the sentiment is valid. =) I do wonder if printing out this new message saying SVN considers XML files as binary is going to increase the amount of people realizing that they are tripping over this. -- justin
