Not stricly related, or maybe yes, but years ago in InfOil we started using Dolphin Smalltalk PAX format[1] for packages with Git, and we used that setting to store code in the repo, we didn't have any issues
The .gitattributes contained this: *.img binary *.chg binary *.sml binary OurImage.img merge=ours OurImage.chg merge=ours *.pax eol=lf *.cls eol=lf .pax was the "package definition" and "method extensions" (methods not belonging to the package) file. .cls was the 1 file per class+class-side used by this scheme Even we did everything in Windows for some reason I don't remember (+5 yrs ago) LF was better for Gitlab. What I also don't remember is if during the checkout in the Gitlab CI some conversion was used or not. I don't remember a lot of things, but I can ask them if you want. But I can confirm that this "trick" does work. Git for Windows even asks you if you want to automatically convert CRLF to LF during checkin and back to CRLF on checkout. Regards, On 10/04/2018 18:05, Esteban Lorenzano wrote: > Hi, > > I’ve been wondering how to better fix the problem of having windows and > linux/macOS people contributing and the fact that files are written in > their native system format (crlf windows, lf for the rest of the world). > > I digged a bit and I found a couple a link that helped me (after trying > to understand the > doc): > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/170961/whats-the-best-crlf-carriage-return-line-feed-handling-strategy-with-git > > and it seems adding a .gitattributes file with this content: > > # Auto detect text files and perform LF normalization > *text=auto > *.sttext merge=union eol=lf > > could fix the problem? > can someone confirm this? > > (I confess this issue confuses me a lot :P) > > cheers! > Esteban -- Esteban A. Maringolo
