Issue 96 in svnbook: svn:keywords failing on UTF-16 files as they are treated binary
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Thu Sep 9 23:54:03 CDT 2010
Status: New
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Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium
New issue 96 by c... at shadowbyte.net: svn:keywords failing on UTF-16 files
as they are treated binary
http://code.google.com/p/svnbook/issues/detail?id=96
After some 2 hours beating about the bushes I finally found out why
subversion and tortoise svn were refusing to substitute svn:keywords.
The XML file i was using was saved as UTF-16 and subversion does handle
UTF-16 as binary. HOW THE HECK SHOULD A THINKING PERSON COME UP THAT AN XML
FILE IS TREATED BINARY ?!
So please for the sake of others do point out that UTF-16 text files and
binary files cannot be used for keyword substitution. Or even make SVN
chocke on svn:keywords for binary files.
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