Question

I don’t know why I’m getting (bin) in the file status – I checked the file and there are no special characters. The add and commit worked and the file is probably fine, but I just thought it was odd.

Answer 1

From http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#binary-files

Subversion treats the following files as text:

• Files with no svn:mime-type
• Files with a svn:mime-type starting “text/”
• Files with a svn:mime-type equal to “image/x-xbitmap”
• Files with a svn:mime-type equal to “image/x-xpixmap”

All other files are treated as binary, meaning that Subversion will:

• Not attempt to automatically merge received changes with local changes during svn update or svn merge
• Not show the differences as part of svn diff
• Not show line-by-line attribution for svn blame

Check your file extension / associated mime type. You can force it to text by doing a propset on the the svn:mime-type to be different than the system’s associated mime type.