We're wrapping up our final few issues targeted for the 0.4 release,
and one of those (DNA-277) was to fix all of the line terminators in
our files to be just LF. If we don't use the same line terminators,
performing diffs in some tools (including Git) consider the whole file
to be changed. This is something that quite a few other JBoss
projects do, and it simply helps portability across our different
development platforms and tools. Most of the time, we probably won't
even notice the difference.
We changed the Eclipse preferences back in January but were waiting
until the end of a release cycle to change the files. (Please make
sure you're using these preferences and are using Unix-style line
endings.) There actually weren't too many files that needed to be
fixed. But there were some, and I just committed the corrections.
In addition to the Eclipse preferences, we can each modify our
~/.subversion/config file to make the SVN command-line tool ensure
each uploaded file has the proper line endings. There is now a
README_COMMITTERS.txt file under 'trunk/' that describes to make this
change. I'm not sure if the Eclipse Team plugin for SVN automatically
reads these settings, but you can go into Eclipse preferences (under
Team->SVN->Properties Configuration) and import your config file.
Thanks for your cooperation. Best regards,
Randall
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