Re: [Geotools-devel] Git Migration another step in the right direction

[Justin D. <jde...@op...>]

Funny you bring this up Ben. We use git for some internal projects and have
developers on windows that recently ran into this issue and it was a real
pita. Although it was fine up until a developer has to actually be able to
commit just one file with crlf endings, a windows .cmd file that seemed to
require it. Here is what i have learned.

core.autocrlf = true or core.autocrlf = input seems to generally be pretty
safe
core.safecrlf = true is useful for folks on windows and will let them know
if they are about to commit line ending changes.

Some useful posts about this.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/170961/whats-the-best-crlf-handling-strategy-with-git
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4181870/git-on-windows-what-do-the-crlf-settings-mean

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies <
Ben...@cs...> wrote:

> On 25/05/12 10:17, Jody Garnett wrote:
>
>> I think most of our core team is happy with git these days; how about we
>> schedule the migration after GeoTools 8.0 is released?
>>
>
> +1.
>
> At this point I must admit to being somewhat of a git n00b. While I have
> been using git for local branches, almost all of my remote repositories
> have been subversion, accessed with git-svn. I have been sheltered
> therefore by the GeoTools project subversion config from addressing things
> like git line ending issues.
>
> What local settings should GeoTools developers use to ensure correct
> behaviour on all platforms? Do I need to:
>
> $ git config --global core.autocrlf true
>
> This might rely on the content of the repository.
>
> Sample discussions:
> http://help.github.com/line-**endings/<http://help.github.com/line-endings/>
> http://stackoverflow.com/**questions/2825428/why-should-**
> i-use-core-autocrlf-true-in-**git<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2825428/why-should-i-use-core-autocrlf-true-in-git>
>
> Do we need to manipulate the subversion repository as it is migrated to
> git to ensure there are no text files containing CRLF line endings?
>
> Are there any other subversion properties whose absence will be missed
> when we migrate to git?
>
> Any other advice from git frequent fliers? (Justin and Gabriel?)
>
> Kind regards,
>
> --
> Ben Caradoc-Davies <Ben...@cs...>
> Software Engineer
> CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering
> Australian Resources Research Centre
>



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Justin Deoliveira
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Enterprise support for open source geospatial.