Issue 177 in svnbook: Documentation error re/ keywords in binary files.

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New issue 177 by jeffrey.... at gmail.com: Documentation error re/ keywords in  
binary files.
http://code.google.com/p/svnbook/issues/detail?id=177

In this chapter
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.props.special.keywords.html

it states that "Subversion will only perform keyword substitution on files  
that it considers to be human-readable—this is, files which don't carry an  
svn:mime-type property whose value indicates otherwise."  This is not  
true.  I have successfully done (fixed width) keyword substitution on  
binary files in svn 1.6.x.

Moreover, the perl script in question specifically states that it does  
support fixed width keyword substitutions in binary files.
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/contrib/hook-scripts/svn-keyword-check.pl

Regards,
Jeff