I just committed a bunch of HTML files to SVN, then realized that they don't display as HTML when you browse the repository. After painfully reconstructing the solution, I figured it would be good to jot a note on how to deal with this.
First, you need to fix the svn:mime-type property on all of your committed HTML files. To do this, use your SVN client to select all of the HTML files under SVN control, then set their svn:mime-type property to text/html, then commit these changes. That fixes the current files.
To ensure that all of your current and future HTML files are committed from the get-go with the svn:mime-type property set to text/html, you have to use the SVN auto-props feature. What that basically means is that you have to edit the file called "config" in your local SVN installation, and uncomment the following line:
enable-auto-props = yes
Then you have to add a new line that looks like this:
*.html = svn:mime-type=text/html
Finally, you (potentially) need to instruct your SVN client to consider auto-props when doing its commits. For example, in SmartSVN, you have to go to Projects | Default Settings | Working Copy and check "Apply Auto-Props from SVN 'config' file to added files".
In TortoiseSVN, there is a "Setting" menu that allows you to edit the 'config' file in a similar manner.
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In Tortoise SVN, you can configure it by selecting "Settings" in the pop-up menu to bring up a dialog box. Locate the "Edit" button and click it. The config file will be open by the Notepad. You will find enable-auto-prop at the end of this page.
Another project deals with this problem more thoroughly at Google: http://code.google.com/p/flexlib/wiki/HowToBuild
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