[dmd-internals] LF and CRLF on git

[Walter Bright]

I also like the idea of the autotester rejecting any files with CRLF. Brad?

On 1/15/2013 6:48 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 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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