> Git for Windows even asks you if you want to automatically convert CRLF > to LF during checkin and back to CRLF on checkout.
There are config options `core.eol` and `core.autocrlf`, but my impression was that Iceberg was somehow bypassing them? Peter On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 11:17 PM, Esteban A. Maringolo <[email protected] > wrote: > 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 > >
