I believe, if we instead upgrade to Checkstyle 8.21 or later, we don't need to do any of those alternative approaches.
https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/4073 - Eric L On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 1:20 PM Vladimir Sitnikov < sitnikov.vladi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Robert>A clone from Git succeeds, but the sources.zip fails. > Robert>The files in the zip are generated on a unix system, so all EOLs in > text files are LF > Robert>... > Robert>The fix: add a setup.groovy to the IT and rewrite the java files > with OS specific EOLs > > Alternative approaches: > A) Provide both Linux (LF) and Windows (CRLF) source distributions (e.g. > *.zip and *.tgz). > B) Specify "lineSeparator" explicitly. Then you could have both CRLF and LF > files at the same time and verify if those work > C) Generate file at the build stage. If you generate it into target/ > directory, then you could generate the file with appropriate for the > platform enconding > D) Ensure the file is always in LF or CRLF by adding a relevant > .gitattributes entry > > Vladimir >
