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I'm maintaining a SVN server and on user needs to commit many adobe illustrator files (ie *.ai). I can use the auto-props in their config to set it as a binary file so that it won't be in the mailing list commits. However I'd like to make this as easy as possible. Is there something I can set in the SVN server config, so that it (ie the server) will automatically set the correct svn:mime-type?

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It's not possible. There is a long standing feature request for broadcasting configs to client. It's not presently due until 2.0, or later.

The closest you can come is to use hooks. Either with a pre-commit to prevent incorrectly configured clients from submitting the wrong data. Or a post-commit to retro-fix wrong data.

Neither is great and I believe the latter is even advised against.

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While there is no great answer to this, you can use svn_apply_autoprops.py which I wrote to apply your standard auto-props to a working copy to bring all the files there into compliance.

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The link to svn_apply_autoprops.py seems to be broken. Searching for the filename gives me this copy in Apache which is probably the same file. – Nikolaos Georgiou Aug 27 '12 at 10:46
Also: the script works great, thanks :-) – Nikolaos Georgiou Aug 27 '12 at 10:59
Yes, that's the new location. The Subversion source code moved from svn.collab.net to svn.apache.org when we joined the Apache Software Foundation. – Blair Zajac Aug 28 '12 at 16:53

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