Re: "\n" in HiveConf

Hello, Indeed they have an impact on the readability and maintenance of the class so I would be in favor of dropping them. Checking the calls to HiveConf.ConfVars#getDescription [1] it seems that line breaks are somewhat relevant for generating the hive-default.xml.template and SHOW CONF command

"\n" in HiveConf

Hey All! Maybe I'm missing some history here: does anyone know why and for what we use line break characters in the descriptions in HiveConf ? (1046 occurrences as we speak) As far as I can tell