[svnbook] r4296 committed - Fix Issue 177 ("Documentation error re/ keywords in binary files")....
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Revision: 4296
Author: cmpilato at gmail.com
Date: Thu Sep 6 07:34:45 2012
Log: Fix Issue 177 ("Documentation error re/ keywords in binary
files").
* en/book/ch03-advanced-topics.xml
Remove note about Subversion only performing keyword expansion on
human-readable files. It was quite incorrect.
http://code.google.com/p/svnbook/source/detail?r=4296
Modified:
/trunk/en/book/ch03-advanced-topics.xml
=======================================
--- /trunk/en/book/ch03-advanced-topics.xml Fri Apr 20 09:31:19 2012
+++ /trunk/en/book/ch03-advanced-topics.xml Thu Sep 6 07:34:45 2012
@@ -2385,20 +2385,6 @@
modify from outside the format's native application (as is true
for the older Microsoft Office document formats).</para>
- <note>
- <para>Subversion will only perform keyword substitution on files
- that it considers to be human-readable—this is, files
- which don't carry an <literal>svn:mime-type</literal> property
- whose value indicates otherwise. To force keyword
- substitution on binary files, you'll need to either lie or
- feign ignorance about their true content type. Understand,
- however, that doing so will also enable for those files other
- Subversion behaviors that you might not desire, including
- line-based differencing and merging. For more about content
- types, see <xref linkend="svn.advanced.props.special.mime-type"
- />.</para>
- </note>
-
<warning>
<para>Be aware that because the width of a keyword field is
measured in bytes, the potential for corruption of
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