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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# A quick and dirty script, to help add the svn property to files.
+# It is intended to be ran with a relative path from the desired directory.
+# e.g.,
+# haiku/trunk/docs> sh ../src/tools/propset-files.sh
+
+tmpDir="`finddir B_COMMON_TEMP_DIRECTORY`"
+tmpFile="${tmpDir}/propset-html"
+find . -type d -name .svn -prune -o -print > "$tmpFile"
+
+while read file ; do
+	hasProperty=`svn propget svn:mime-type "$file"`
+
+	if ! [ $hasProperty ] ; then
+		case "$file" in
+			*.html)
+				mimetype="text/html"
+				svn propset svn:mime-type "$mimetype" "$file"
+				;;
+			#*.png)
+			#	mimetype="image/png"
+			#	#svn propset svn:mime-type "$mimetype" "$file"
+			#	;;
+			#*)
+			#	echo $file
+			#	;;
+		esac
+	fi
+done < "$tmpFile"
+
+rm "$tmpFile"