Thursday, October 19, 2017, 9:07:39 PM, Mark wrote: > The line-endings of ReadMe are correct in my checkout, which means the > git autodetection is working for me. I could add ReadMe explicitly in > .gitattributes, but that shouldn't make a difference (it should already > be caught by "* text=auto" in the .gitattributes). Are you saying ReadMe > still has LF instead of CRLF in your checkout?
Don't worry about it for now. That observation was made on the files from the zip that I downloaded at the beginning of the week (#3 conversion). I should be able to get up to date with your test conversions at the weekend. > As to the firebird repository, it doesn't use a .gitattributes, which > imho is an oversight, I will bring it up in firebird-devel later. The > switch to files with extensions pre-dates the switch to git (eg > doc/README.connection_string_charset.txt is 8 years old, which puts it > in the 'CVS'-era). It just isn't done consistently. Using file > extensions does make it easier - at least on Windows - for end-users to > open them in a text editor without having to use 'Open with' or similar > extra steps. IMHO, it's a small "ask", considering that a number of those Readme files go out in the release distributions, in /doc/, for all platforms. A Tracker request might be the way to go. That's what got us version numbers in firebird.conf, eventually. Don't make the ticket a DOC one, though, as those who need to see it are unlikely to notice a DOC ticket. > Since the switch to git, some of the readme files have been created as > .md (markdown), but probably that is because GitHub will render that > with nice formatting, eg compare > https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/blob/master/README.md with the > source > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/master/README.md That's interesting - and probably, in some abstruse way, accounts for my erstwhile belief that I couldn't get that content except by copy/pasting the text. Helen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Firebird-docs mailing list Firebird-docs@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-docs
