Re: Merge mode (Was Classifying files as binary or text)

2009-11-19 Thread Branko Čibej
Julian Foad wrote: > Here is a vision of a solution that doesn't treat MIME-type as "special" > but can still take advantage of it, both for 99% "Do The Right Thing" > without manual setting of another property, and also for backward > compatibility. > > (1) Use of line-wise merge shall be determin

Re: Merge mode (Was Classifying files as binary or text)

2009-11-18 Thread B Smith-Mannschott
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 08:25, David Glasser 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 alread

Re: Merge mode (Was Classifying files as binary or text)

2009-11-18 Thread David Glasser
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? --dave On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Julian Foad wrote: > I need to spend some time replying, late at night though it is. > > Let

Re: Merge mode (Was Classifying files as binary or text)

2009-11-18 Thread Julian Foad
B. Smith-Mannschott wrote: > 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, a

Re: Merge mode (Was Classifying files as binary or text)

2009-11-17 Thread Branko Čibej
David Glasser 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? > I understand those attributes are defined by the RFC, and you can't just add your own. You can add comm