[dmd-internals] LF and CRLF on git

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Yah, we should add a pre-commit hook. I found a script on the net. How 
do we load it into .git/hooks/ so everybody gets it?

Andrei

On 1/15/13 9:24 PM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> My git setup screams at me when I try to stage files with windows line
> endings.  If we put this in the gitconfig...
>
> An alternative would be to have the autotester reject pulls that add \r\n's.
>
> Relying on all contributors to do the setup themselves doesn't seem like
> it will work.
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com
> <mailto:walter at digitalmars.com>> wrote:
>
>     I have had a bunch of trouble lately with git, which I suspect was
>     the result of checking in a new file that had CRLF line endings
>     instead of LF. I know that git is supposed to be able to deal with
>     this, but my experience suggests it has a schizophrenic behavior
>     regarding this.
>
>     My git checkin procedure is done with a script that prefaces it with:
>
>     tolf filename
>     detab filename
>
>     tolf ensures that the line endings are LF, and detab converts tabs
>     to spaces. This canonicalizes all entries into git, and avoids all
>     the ugly problems with CRLF.
>
>     Please ensure that you add these to your checkin workflow, or
>     something equivalent. No, the .git settings are not sufficient.
>
>     (BTW, if someone wrote a D source code formatter, I'd love to add
>     that to our checkin process!)
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