How to mark files as binary to avoid diffs

March 22, 2007 on 4:59 pm | In Uncategorized | No Comments

Some files should really be treated as binary so the addition, removal, or update of such files doesn’t trigger enormous diffds. PDF files are an example. Setting the svn:mime-type property of the file to application/octet-stream does the trick: svn propset svn:mime-type application/octet-stream

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