Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] EGit / line ending problems with simrel r

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 16/08/2012 16:30, John Arthorne wrote:
Also note you can select an entire
project/folder/etc and do File > Convert Line Delimiters To > Unix
to make sure you are in a consistent state.

Beware: This appears to be achieved by a dummy edit
using the default editor for each file.

XML files may therefore have their line-wrapping adjusted.

Custom editors that fail to perform dummy edits may actually corrupt files.
(Perhaps this is a useful editor test.)

I find this an interesting comment. Is there a bug or
something that explains more? Not that I doubt it, but just want to understand.

For example XML parsers normalize to LF anyway, so not
sure how changing to LF would change line-wrapping? (Unless, you mean changes
line wrappings in an editor that doesn't understand LFs ... which would
seem rare, these days?) 
Perhaps, you mean in a CDATA section? And, if so, are
you talking about cases were a file has mixed line-endings? Some CRLF,
some LF? 
And, if that is so, I think "mixed line endings"
is a problematic case for any SCM that does EOL conversions on check-out
and check-in. As far as I know, such cases would have to be treated as
"binary files" to avoid changing any EOLs. 

Which brings me to my main question (finally) ... is core.safecrlf
supported by JGit/EGit? Would there be any advantage in recommending to
set it to "true" or "warn"? 

Thanks, 

 




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 Ed Willink <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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 08/18/2012 06:40 AM
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EGit / line ending problems with simrel repo
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Hi

On 16/08/2012 16:30, John Arthorne wrote:
Also note you can select an entire project/folder/etc
and do File > Convert Line Delimiters To > Unix to make sure you
are in a consistent state. 
Beware: This appears to be achieved by a dummy edit using
the default editor for each file.

XML files may therefore have their line-wrapping adjusted.

Custom editors that fail to perform dummy edits may actually corrupt files.
(Perhaps this is a useful editor test.)

    Regards

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