[kevin@pilch-bisson.net] Re: svn:mime-type and detecting mergeability

[cm...@collab.net]

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From: kevin@pilch-bisson.net
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Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:32:14 -0700
To: cmpilato@collab.net
Subject: Re: svn:mime-type and detecting mergeability
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Quoting cmpilato@collab.net:

> Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@collab.net> writes:
> > So why not fix this purely on the client side?  In a site-wide or
> > personal ~/.subversion config area, set a list of mime-type patterns
> > that are assumed to be text.
> 
> I dunno, Ben.  I think it would be cool if Subversion's repository
> could propogate default config options to working copies associated
> with that repository.  Think repos-wide svn:ignores,
> svn:textual-mimetype, etc.  Without such, every user, on every machine
> on which they use Subversion, has just that many more magic steps they
> have to take before their working copies are properly set up.  What's
> more, those configuration may not be desirable for all working copies
> they have -- these are per-repository types of options.
> 
While I agree that it might be nice to have subversion repository properties 
for doing things like this, I'm not sure how necessary it is.

Here's another suggestion:  Users can store default ~/.subversion/config file 
in their repository, check them out, and copy the files to their own home dirs.

I.e. have a repos layout like this (for perhaps a corporate network):

/
 trunk/
 branches/
 tags/
 config/
        proxies
        options
        ....

Then, when a new employee starts they
~ $ svn co http://svn.mycompany.com/repos/config/ ~/.subversion

And all is happy!

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