Mac – How to get SVN to recognize Mac Bundles as ASCII instead of Binary Streams

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I have a keynote file in which I am regularly editing the text, moving slides around, etc. There are a max of a few kilobytes of data changed in the internal .key XML file. However, SVN recognizes this as a bundle and checks in the entire .3gb "file" with each change (I have a lot of high-res videos.) This is clearly not ideal. Is there any way to get SVN to recognize bundles as directories?

A similar answer for Git would be appreciated as well.

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Up to Keynote' 06 the .keynote file was actually a folder ¹ like you mentioned. However, later the .key format is used and this is a zip file. ²

ZIP files are not a good format to be diffed, but you can add unzip as a diff handler in git.

You can also save the presentation in the old .keynote format. If svn still thinks the file is binary, you can use svn add --no-auto-props or svn propdel svn:mime-type. Files with no mime-type are treated as text files by subversion. ³

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As far as I know, you can mount the .sparseimage, and run "Repair/Verify" in Disk Utility, like you could on any other disk....

And like any other disk, always try to "eject" or dismount before powering off or restarting the computer..

I have seen them get corrupted before, but not for a long time... I think it might have been a non-Snow Leopard issue. BTW, sparse "disks" are how Apple stores your "Home" folder when you use FileVault (which are gone in Lion, so don't go ecrypting your home folder, now... they just encrypt the whole disk)

My favorite command is the following, which shrinks the sparseimage down to the actual amount of data you have stored in it, no matter how large it had grown to by adding files which you have now deleted..

hdiutil compact /Macintosh\ HD/Path/to/Name\ of\ file.sparseimage

BTW, the backslashes ( \ ) are only required if you have spaces in your file pathname.

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You already have a server running yes?

Then just do this:

svn co http://server/path/to/directory/to/checkout ./repository

This creates a new folder 'repository' (you can name it however you want) and downloads all the stuff in 'path/to/directory/to/checkout' to it. If this contains nothing, this is not a problem but svn knows now that 'repository' is under version control.

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