Via IRC:
<epriestley> If you just do this, in a clean working copy: <svemir> maybe due to svn version? we are on 1.7.4 <epriestley> echo asdf > new_file <epriestley> svn add new_file <epriestley> svn propset svn:executable '*' new_file <epriestley> arc diff --only <epriestley> ...does that show the file content? <epriestley> I'm on 1.8.3, so it definitely could be a version issue. <epriestley> Not showing file content for text files with svn:executable set definitely sounds like a bug on our side, though. <epriestley> But I can't repro (at HEAD + 1.8.3, at least). <svemir> it does not show the content in new_file in the diff in my case <svemir> and this is not even in that messed up repo
This works fine at HEAD on 1.8.3, so it's likely a version problem: