svn annotate does not work because: "skipping binary file", but on non-binary file

[Spiro Trikaliotis <ne...@trikaliotis.net>]

Hello,

as I can show this problem with an open-source project, I will use that
for demonstration.

I have a text file (svn:mime-type=text/plain, svn:eol-style=native) and
I want SVN to annotate it. However, I get the following output:

$ LANG=C svn annotate
http://vice-emu.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vice-emu/trunk/vice/src/video.h
Skipping binary file:
'http://vice-emu.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vice-emu/trunk/vice/src/video.h'

Obviously, this is not true; the file is not binary.

I believe this might be related to the fact that the file once was a
binary file (before r18717).

Can you confirm this?

If yes: What can I do to prevent this? I do not want to completely loose
the "svn annotate" option. Can I override this?

No, I do not think of the --force option, which works. I want to
permanently remove the need to do this.

I have thought about dumping the SVN, changing the properties of the
files, and writing the dump into the SVN. However, as the dump is very
large (the SVN repository was created by cvs2svn, which did not handle
the "cvs import" in good way), this will take much time. Furthermore, I
am not sure if it is easy to change the dump accordingly. So, I am
asking if there is an easier way.

Thank you for any idea.

Regards,
Spiro.

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Spiro R. Trikaliotis                              http://opencbm.sf.net/
http://www.trikaliotis.net/                     http://www.viceteam.org/


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Re: svn annotate does not work because: "skipping binary file", but on non-binary file

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On Oct 8, 2008, at 03:34, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:

> as I can show this problem with an open-source project, I will use  
> that
> for demonstration.
>
> I have a text file (svn:mime-type=text/plain, svn:eol-style=native)  
> and
> I want SVN to annotate it. However, I get the following output:
>
> $ LANG=C svn annotate
> http://vice-emu.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vice-emu/trunk/vice/src/ 
> video.h
> Skipping binary file:
> 'http://vice-emu.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vice-emu/trunk/vice/ 
> src/video.h'
>
> Obviously, this is not true; the file is not binary.
>
> I believe this might be related to the fact that the file once was a
> binary file (before r18717).
>
> Can you confirm this?

I do not know if that's the reason. But if it is:

> If yes: What can I do to prevent this? I do not want to completely  
> loose
> the "svn annotate" option. Can I override this?
>
> No, I do not think of the --force option, which works. I want to
> permanently remove the need to do this.

If the --force option is not sufficient, and you want to permanently  
fix it:

> I have thought about dumping the SVN, changing the properties of the
> files, and writing the dump into the SVN. However, as the dump is very
> large (the SVN repository was created by cvs2svn, which did not handle
> the "cvs import" in good way), this will take much time.  
> Furthermore, I
> am not sure if it is easy to change the dump accordingly. So, I am
> asking if there is an easier way.

I cannot help with the fact that the dump will be large and will take  
a long time to produce, and another long time to load back in, but  
editing a dumpfile is not difficult if you use a tool written to do  
that job. svndumptool is quite helpful for surgery like this; I just  
did some to one of my own repositories. Take a look:

http://svn.borg.ch/svndumptool/

There's a new feature "apply-autoprops" in the not-yet-released  
svndumptool 0.6 which I found quite helpful. You can build  
svndumptool from trunk to get that feature.



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