Those line breaks are for the generated template file (conf/hive-default.xml.template), which formats configuration parameters and their descriptions appropriately for hive-site.xml files.
For example, *hive.input.format* doesn't have explicit line breaks so its long description is all on one line: https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/master/data/conf/hive-site.xml#L200-204. Rather than removing "\n" in parameter descriptions, we should add them where needed. -- Lefty On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Sergey Shelukhin <ser...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > Subj. All the setting descriptions are in the “Blah blah blah\n” + “Blah > blah” form. > Do we really need the explicit line break there? To maintain the short > lines in the source we could just sum strings w/o \n. > >
