[dna-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Created: (DNA-277) Fix all text files in source code to have consistent line feeds

[Randall Hauch (JIRA)]

Fix all text files in source code to have consistent line feeds
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                 Key: DNA-277
                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/DNA-277
             Project: DNA
          Issue Type: Task
    Affects Versions: 0.3
            Reporter: Randall Hauch
            Assignee: Johnny Verhaeg
            Priority: Minor
             Fix For: 0.4


Currently, all of the text files in our source code have a mixture of carriage returns and line feeds.  And, our DNA preferences (for Eclipse) did not specify any special handling, so each developer's settings were used (and likely were the default settings for the platform).  Regardless of the preference settings, however, Eclipse editors always keep the line termination characters used in each particular file, so if a file was created on Windows, it will have \r\n for all lines, even when that file is modified on Linux or OS X.  There are a few cases where a file seems to have a mixture of line terminations.

We should probably have a consistent line terminator in all files, and that terminator should probably be '\n', which is the line terminator on *nix, for a couple of reasons.  First, the JBoss.org SVN repository is hosted on Linux, and being consistent probably helps somewhat.  Second, some tools (including Git) rely upon the '\n' character for determining line feeds, so that rules out the Mac style line feeds ('\r').  Third, there really is no need to store multiple characters.

We need to verify that the converting all files to use Unix line terminators is acceptable.  If so, we need to convert all of the files (that need it), update the Eclipse preferences, and have all developers make sure their Eclipse preference settings are correct.

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