D. Item properties

You can set properties (meta-data) on items. Properties are arbitrary name/value pairs associated with files and directories in your working copy. For more information see the subversion book.

The special properties supported by subversion are

svn:eol-style Possible values are native, CRLF, LF, CR
svn:executable is used to define whether a file is an executable or not.
svn:externals Read documentation, this is, I think, a wonderful thing. Use this to make subversion automagically checkout stuff from other locations/repositories within your subversioned structure.
svn:ignore is a nice way to add a property to a directory that contains files not under subversion control to avoid cluttering when using svn status.
svn:keywords is used to define whether you want subversion to perform keyword substitution. Where the keyword is inserted in your files is controlled by a keyword anchor, $KeywordName$. Supported keywords are
HeadURL or URL
Id
LastChangedBy or Author
LastChangedDate or Date.
LastChangedRevision or Revision or Rev
To set the svn:keywords property do something like

svn propset svn:keywords "LastChangedDate Author" filename
svn:mime-type is used to set the mime-type of a file.
To set or get a property name, use the svn propset and svn propget sub-commands. To list all properties on an object, use svn proplist.

Subversion provides some automatic property setting when you do svn add or svn import, e.g. if subversion thinks you are adding a binary file, the svn:mime-type is set to application/octet-stream (alas the general binary mime type). Subversion does not try to do smarter, i.e., figure out that a file is a png graphics which should have mime type image/png). However, you can affect the way subversion sets properties automatically by changing your config file. You can make subversion to recognise a pattern like *.jpg, and consequently set the mime property to image/jpeg. We supply a set of options to add into your config file in Appendix F.