| Re: [stellation-res] what does "Fixing file not in standard form :" mean? |
On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 08:22:50PM -0400, Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote: > On Wednesday 24 July 2002 08:03 pm, Florin Iucha wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 07:11:30PM -0400, Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote: > > > On Wednesday 24 July 2002 05:03 pm, Florin Iucha wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I am adding a bunch of files to a project and I'm getting tons of: > > > > Fixing file not in standard form : /path/to/file > > > > > > > > What does it mean? > > > > > > It means the file ends without a carriage return on the last line. Each > > > line of a text file is supposed to have a carriage return at the end. > > > Stellation normalizes text files if they don't have a CR at the end. > > > > 1. Then the message should be explicit and tell me what it does. > > We thought that's what it's doing. Standard form for text files > is a carriage return on the end of each line. I thought that was > a reasonably good message for what it's doing. Would it be > better to just say "Adding carriage return to normalize text file"? It would certainly be better. > > 2. I still don't think it is proper to change a file without asking me. > > It's only adding a carriage return. Which it does for a reasonably > good reason. I agree it is a good reason. > > 3. Why shoult Stellation care about the contents of the file? For > > merging? [snip] > If you think it's really important, it's not a terribly hard thing to do to I think a file should be kept as I created it, except when I ask for stuff to happen to it (keyword expansion, etc.). But don't take my word for it. Add the good explanation that you put in this message into the FAQ and if more votes pour in, consider making it an option. Thank you, florin -- "NT is to UNIX what a dougnut is to a particle accelerator." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4
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