Re: default setting of svn:mime-type?

[email protected] 27 Sep 2005 11:56:32 -0500

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Paul Koning <[email protected]> writes:
> Hm... it looks like svn:mime-type is set to application/octet-stream
> whenever the CVS file is marked as binary ("kb").  I didn't see that
> in the docs.

Oh, that's interesting!  I wonder why we do that?

It seems unnecessary.  It's enough to merely *not* set svn:eol-style
and svn:keywords, I don't see why we should set the svn:mime-type to
'application/octet-stream'.  Thoughts, folks?  (dev@ list CC'd)

We've been doing it forever, apparently, at least since r1165.  I
wonder if we use mime-type to decide whether or not to set the other
two properties.  That would be a tangled dependency web indeed...