Question

I have a number of files that I checked into SVN without having set up their Mime types correctly. SVN initially classified them as binary.

I’ve since set their Mime type in SVN via propset to ‘text/plain; charset=UTF-8’ and I’vc made sure that all the files are UTF-8 signed. When I do ‘svn blame filename’, svn says that the file is binary and does not give me explicit blame-type output.

Any suggestions on how to persuade SVN that these are truly text files?

Answer 1

Setting the svn:mime-type property to just ‘text/plain’ helps:

svn propset svn:mime-type text/plain build.xml svn commit build.xml 

Also, you can force Subversion to treat a file as text when blaming:

svn blame file/to/blame --force