auto_props and setting the same property multiple times?

[Toby Johnson]

Dirk wrote:
>
>> From SVN manual "For example, if a file's svn:mime-type property is 
>> set to a non-text MIME type (generally, something that doesn't begin 
>> with text/, though there are exceptions), Subversion will assume that 
>> the file contains binary—that is, not human-readable—data."
>> (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.props.file-portability.html#svn.advanced.props.special.mime-type) 
>>
> I checked the manual and came to the same conclusion. I have change 
> the auto_props code to first set the mime-type based on the binary 
> flag and then check for auto properties. So if the mime-type is 
> overwritten by the auto_props, we will loose application/octer-stream 
> in favor of a better description.

Yes, that should be the behavior we use.

> Since I don't have much experiences with properties, I was wondering, 
> whether it is possible to have multiple mime-types. E.g. I dealing a 
> lot with PDF files but i'm interested in rendered images of the PDF 
> file. So I would assign a "image/PDF" mime-type instead of 
> "application/PDF". But both views of it a correct, so having both 
> wouldn't be totally wrong.

It really comes down to how the clients decide to use it. As far as 
Subversion cares, it just matters that it doesn't begin with "text/". 
You may want to ask that list whether multiple mime-types is OK and what 
the behavior is in that case.