On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 12:52:33PM +0200, Edward d'Auvergne wrote: > I would maybe suggest introducing an option for disabling the entire > automatic property subsystem, i.e. it combines both of these, and > overrides them. This is an interesting thought experiment - devise > any name for such a top level automatic property override - and this > should convincingly demonstrate the confusion that the current setting > names induces.
I think that would just make the situation worse by adding to the current mess. I agree the documentation needs to be improved. Would you have time to update the documentation and send patches for it? > The problem with the svn:mime-type block is that for svn clients < > 1.9, 'svn import' can never work. Specifically because the libmagic > layer overwrites any user decision to disable automatic properties. There's another trick to disable libmagic which works with all client versions. I just tested it with 1.8. Set the MAGIC environment variable to a file which does not exist. env MAGIC=/nonexistent svn import ... This effectively disabled libmagic support.
