hi, > On 10 Apr 2018, at 23:17, 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.
exactly what I want, because pharo/iceberg/tonel uses the system line ending to write the files :) thanks! Esteban ps: otherwise I will need to add some support in-image and I don’t think is the best approach. pps: now it remains to see if libgit2 honours the .gitattributes config > > 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 >
