How do I tell Subversion to treat a file as a binary file?

Question

How do I tell Subversion (svn) to treat a file as a binary file?

Answer 1

svn looks for a mime-type property, guessing it is text if it doesn't exist. You can explicity set this property, see http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.forcvs.binary-and-trans.html