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Files without extensions as text files in RTC SCM

Is there any way to enable files without extensions to be treated as text files by RTC? For an individual file, I can right click on the file and select Team -> Change File Properties... to specify the MIME type as text and set the line delimiter. I am wondering if there is way to set this globally (through Preferences) so that setting would apply to all files without extensions. Thanks.

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Sorry, there is currently no way to achieve this behaviour. All unmapped extensions and file names are hardcoded to default to Application/Unknown, Binary. This is done by design so to not accidently format new-line characters on binary files.

You can map an individual file name that doesn't have extensions, but there is no regular expression support for all files with no extension.

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Is there any way to get around this?  We have lots of files with no extensions and they should not be treated as binary


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Hi Andrew,
is there any way to disable _globally_ all this file properties handling stuff ?
I would like to achieve a configuration where RTC handles _ALL_ files as "None (Binary)"

I have changed the settings in the GUI Preferences->Team->Jazz Source Control->File Properties (Ver.2.0.0.2) , but that did not change anything.
Incoming files that have DOS encoding are automatically converted to Unix line-delimiters making so a lot of confusion, because it will signal a change because of the transformation even if the file did not change anything.

Since we work with a high number of source files it would be quite time consuming turning each file individually to "None".

Thanks in advance !

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