On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, 10:00 Frédéric Chapoton, <fchapot...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have made https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/31379 to get rid of the CRLF
> in these 3 files.
>

Thanks!

Can we do something to stop this happening again?

John



> Le jeudi 11 février 2021 à 10:43:27 UTC+1, Frédéric Chapoton a écrit :
>
>> I have been hit by this kind of annoying issue some time ago. No idea
>> what is happening.
>> There are only 3 offending files containing CRLF:
>>
>> sage$ git grep -Il $'\r' src/
>> src/sage/combinat/crystals/star_crystal.py
>> src/sage/misc/element_with_label.py
>> src/sage/rings/invariants/__init__.py
>>
>> We should probably change them to use the correct line break
>> Le jeudi 11 février 2021 à 10:21:26 UTC+1, john.c...@gmail.com a écrit :
>>
>>> On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 at 18:07, Dima Pasechnik <dim...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 5:49 PM John Cremona <john.c...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 at 16:56, Dima Pasechnik <dim...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > > >
>>> > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 2:58 PM John Cremona <john.c...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > Has anyone else been seeing the following problem, which has
>>> been
>>> > > > > plaguing me for a week or two. Here's a simple example. All
>>> > > > > computers mentioned here are running ubuntu. On a machine I had
>>> not
>>> > > > > used for a while I had a sage build of the develop branch at an
>>> old
>>> > > > > version (pre 9.0). There were no modified files (git status
>>> showed
>>> > > > > nothing). Then I did "git pull trac develop", after which one
>>> file is
>>> > > > > marked as having changed:
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > modified: src/sage/misc/element_with_label.py
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > It is always this file, on several machines where I have gone
>>> through
>>> > > > > similar steps. file shows this:
>>> > > > > src/sage/misc/element_with_label.py: Python script, ASCII text
>>> > > > > executable, with CRLF line terminators
>>> > > >
>>> > > > does
>>> > > >
>>> > > > git config core.autolf
>>> > > >
>>> > > > show 'true'?
>>> > >
>>> > > No.
>>> > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Set it to false, IMHO this should fix this issue.
>>> > >
>>> > > It is not set at all. I saw that option after googling for help, but
>>> > > the issue it exists to solve is not one which has ever hit me (in
>>> sage
>>> > > anyway, of course I know about using dos2unix sometimes when a
>>> windows
>>> > > users sends a file).
>>> >
>>> > did you try setting this option to false, and see if it helps?
>>>
>>> Not yet systematically. After setting it to false and doing nothing
>>> else, git status still shows
>>> src/sage/misc/element_with_label.py as modified, even after 'git
>>> checkout --'. Trying to get back to sanity a different way, 'git
>>> stash' now outputs
>>>
>>>
>>> warning: CRLF will be replaced by LF in
>>> src/sage/misc/element_with_label.py.
>>> The file will have its original line endings in your working directory.
>>> warning: CRLF will be replaced by LF in
>>> src/sage/misc/element_with_label.py.
>>> The file will have its original line endings in your working directory.
>>> Saved working directory and index state WIP on develop: 8453ffb
>>> Updated SageMath version to 9.3.beta7
>>> HEAD is now at 8453ffb Updated SageMath version to 9.3.beta7
>>>
>>> but git status still shows that file as modified. Now I cannot just
>>> checkout a different existing branch (since there are apparently
>>> modified files), but I can checkout a new branch (g = alias for git)
>>>
>>> $ g co -b dud
>>> M src/sage/misc/element_with_label.py
>>> Switched to a new branch 'dud'
>>>
>>> the delete the 'develop' branch (which was the same as upstream anyway):
>>>
>>> $ g branch -d develop
>>> Deleted branch develop (was 8453ffb).
>>>
>>> and now recreate the develop branch
>>>
>>> $ g remote update trac
>>> (...)
>>> $ g co -b develop trac/develop
>>> M src/sage/misc/element_with_label.py
>>> Branch develop set up to track remote branch develop from trac.
>>> Switched to a new branch 'develop'
>>>
>>> and we are back to where we started. All of the above was with
>>> core.autolf set to false.
>>>
>>> On the same machine, in a completely new clone made and built
>>> yesterday, git status shows
>>>
>>> $ g st
>>> On branch develop
>>> Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/develop'.
>>> Changes not staged for commit:
>>> (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
>>> (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working
>>> directory)
>>>
>>> modified: src/sage/rings/invariants/__init__.py
>>>
>>> no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
>>>
>>> So the same problem with a new file -- which only has 2 bytes in it!
>>> AFter dos2unix-ing it (so it now has 1 byte) it is still showing up in
>>> git status. AFter git checkout -- it goes back to having 2 bytes and
>>> still shows up.
>>>
>>> It seems to be impossible to do any sage development here. I am now
>>> trying yet another git clone -- so the global config of core.autolf is
>>> in force as the clone is made -- but then after the clone from
>>> git://github.com/sagemath/sage.git that same file is shown as
>>> modified. For some reason I have been making the cones from github
>>> and then adding trac as a remote. As a variant I made a fresh clone
>>> from trac -- but see exactly the same.
>>>
>>> A similar problem was reported on stackexchange *over 9 years ago* by
>>> a Mac users whose collaborators were all ubuntu users. There, it is
>>> suggest to look at the .gitattributes file, and *in this fresh clone*
>>> that file contains
>>>
>>> # Force LF normalization
>>> * text=auto eol=lf
>>> # except for Windows batch files
>>> *.{cmd,[cC][mM][dD]} text eol=crlf
>>> *.{bat,[bB][aA][tT]} text eol=crlf
>>> *.diff_bin binary
>>>
>>> This is commit 5328570 which is 9.2, master branch, but the develop
>>> branch has the same.
>>>
>>> To me it seems (from reading all that stackexchange page) that this is
>>> not just a problem caused by something in my local configuration, but
>>> something which has happened to the repository itself, which needs to
>>> be fixed. But I am no expert.
>>>
>>> Just to add to the fun, on a second machine with the same ubuntu
>>> version as the one above (16.04.7 LTS) and same git version 2.7.4, a
>>> clone I made yesterday shows no problems at all, while and older clone
>>> on which I had done development for a long time has some CRLF file
>>> issues. The only differences in the global .gitconfig between the two
>>> machines is the core.autolf which I just added to the first.
>>>
>>> I do have some clones without these problems so can keep on working,
>>> but I also have branches I wanted to do more work on in clones which
>>> are unusable.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>> > >
>>> > > So, I did not change anything (as far as I can tell -- except get
>>> > > older) but my git state changed. These files stay changed even after
>>> > > trying to reset them (though *I* did not change them) using git
>>> > > checkout --.
>>> >
>>> > It's a new version of git that got you, I suppose.
>>>
>>> Yes, that is likely, since I did do package updates across the board
>>> before this started to happen. I am seeing it on machines running:
>>> ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS and git 2.7.4
>>> ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS and git 2.17.1
>>> ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS and git 2.25.1
>>>
>>> In no cases was the whole OS updated, just packages so possibly git,
>>> but I don't know what git version any had before this.
>>> >
>>> > We've had some "fun" with this lately, as there are Sage spkgs which
>>> > need patches for files
>>> > with CRLF endings, and so these patches had to be dealt with somehow.
>>> > It was not pleasant.
>>> > See https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/30403
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > >
>>> > > John
>>> > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > git diff shows this:
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > $ git diff -w src/sage/misc/element_with_label.py
>>> > > > > warning: CRLF will be replaced by LF in
>>> src/sage/misc/element_with_label.py.
>>> > > > > The file will have its original line endings in your working
>>> directory.
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > I cannot get this to go away. git stash does nothing, and I
>>> cannot
>>> > > > > change branches since git thinks there is an uncommitted change.
>>> I
>>> > > > > have been reduced to deleting the entire build and starting
>>> again from
>>> > > > > scratch.
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > No, I have not knowingly changed any configuration on these
>>> computers,
>>> > > > > though I have done some normal package upgrades using apt.
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > I just went through the same steps in another directory on the
>>> same
>>> > > > > machine where I had an old build (8.7) and after "git pull trac
>>> > > > > develop" there are now 5 modified files:
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > modified:
>>> > > > >
>>> build/pkgs/sage_sws2rst/src/test/Adding_Pictures_and_screenshots.sws
>>> > > > > modified: src/doc/en/reference/combinat/media/k-rim.JPG
>>> > > > > modified: src/sage/ext_data/doctest/rich_output/example.png
>>> > > > > modified: src/sage/ext_data/notebook-ipython/logo-64x64.png
>>> > > > > modified: src/sage/misc/element_with_label.py
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > -- the same one as before and 3 others which are not even normal
>>> text
>>> > > > > files. I don't want to trash all these since I am trying to
>>> resurrect
>>> > > > > and complete work done on some old trac tickets.
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > John
>>> > > > >
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