Have you normalized the whole repo first? If you still have some files in
CRLF style or even with mixed CRLF & LF style you will have some fun with
them later. Nothing crucial but sometimes *very* confusing.


On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Dan Haywood
<[email protected]>wrote:

> All,
>
> just an fyi, I've just pushed a commit so that our line endings are
> normalized to unix-style LF in the git repo.
>
> For those who use Windows, git can be configured to automatically convert
> LF to Windows-style CRLF on checkout, and back again to LF on checkin.
>
> This is traditionally done by running the "git config core.autocrlf auto"
> command (as documented on our site [1]), and it certainly doesn't harm to
> run that command.  However, I've also checked in a .gitattributes file that
> takes precedence over this config setting.  The file specifies what should
> be considered as text (eg .java, .xml) and what as binary (eg .png).  It's
> worth being aware of this file and adding in entries for new file binary
> types.
>
> Thx
> Dan
>
> [1] http://isis.apache.org/contributors/using-git.html
>



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Regards,
Alexander

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