Re: AW: Fixed line endings in the repository

Thanks Norm,

Any progress will be welcome.

At present my solution is to use Notepad++, which has commands for
converting Windows line-endings to Unix ones. But Notepad++ is not an
XML-aware editor, so one must pay attention to lexical XML issues -
discover and manually fix them.

Thanks,
Dimitre

On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 1:33 AM Norm Tovey-Walsh <norm@saxonica.com> wrote:

> Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@gmail.com> writes:
> > All this is better be completely prevented/eliminated and made
> "invisible" to Windows users - and
> > this is, per my understanding, what Norm has done. Thank you Norm.
>
> You’re welcome. But I think what Christian is saying is that if we just
> fixed the line endings as Unix style, Windows programs would all cope.
>
> In other words, if you open a file with Unix style line endings in your
> favorite Windows editor, “it just works”, you can’t tell (or if you can
> tell, you don’t have to care). I think this is the case.
>
> If the file you save from your editor uses Windows line endings, they’ll
> be automatically converted to Unix line endings when you commit the
> file.
>
> The problem is equally solved this way, I think.
>
> I can see only two differences between the approaches:
>
> 1. Currently, the files are “binary” different. Getting a repository as
> a ZIP file or downloading the “raw” files from GitHub’s UI will save
> Unix line endings even on your PC, but the way I’ve currently configured
> .gitattributes, the files you check out on your Windows PC will have
> Windows line endings.
>
> 2. If we switched to fixed Unix line endings, and someone’s favorite
> Windows editor can’t cope, that’d be inconvenient.
>
> But there’s at least the assertion that modern editing tools on Windows
> can all cope with Unix style line endings so case 2 doesn’t apply.
>
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
>
> --
> Norm Tovey-Walsh
> Saxonica
>


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