Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] EGit / line ending problems with simrel r

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Eike (and Ed) 

I'm the last person to be giving good
advice about Git and EGit ... but that has never stopped me before :) 

I always follow the advise in the Platform's
workflow, 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform-releng/Git_Workflows#Configuring_the_repo
where they suggest 
"Make sure that you set core.autocrlf = false
and on Windows core.filemode = false. If you use EGit to clone the
repository then this is done automatically for you. "
So ... have you tried  autocrlf
= false? I think everyone should, no? 

While there's obviously bugs and problems
in this area, I think our simple goal is to always use LF (Unix EOLs) in
all cases ... in the repo, in the working directory, and everything in
between. 

One complication is that sometimes (I
think) EMF Serialization does not use the project preference for EOL when
serializing the model. Only a few operations cause the whole model to be
serialized, but some do, and then, I've seen, in the past, have the files
change do to EOL problems.  (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=325145)
(The bug was closed as invalid since a) no one else complained :) and b)
didn't seem easy to fix. 

Accordingly we've said, in the past,
if you see files change for no good reason, and you can see nothing of
substance changed, go ahead and commit them. You may be correcting a previously
incorrect formatting or EOL and feedback in the past has been people find
that less confusing (even though it may mean they may lose a comment or
their favorite formatting). 

I hope others have better advice, but
that's the best I have. 

Thanks, 





From:      
 Eike Stepper <stepper@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx,

Date:      
 08/16/2012 12:53 AM
Subject:    
   [cross-project-issues-dev]
EGit / line ending problems with simrel        repo
Sent by:    
   cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

---

Hi,

I'm working on a Windows box and my clone of org.eclipse.simrel.build marks
files dirty that I have not touched myself. 
Currently this is the case for:

                
mdt-ocl.b2aggrcon
                
webtools.b2aggrcon

My Git system config file contains:

                
[core]
                
  autocrlf = true

Egit displays no values for the *system* configuration in the properties
view (UI bug? core bug? any bug??).

Egit displays a duplicate value ("[true][true]") for the *global*
configuration in the properties view (UI bug? core 
bug? any bug??).

Hard reset with EGit does nothing (bug?).

Double-click on the dirty files in the staging view opens a Compare editor
with no changes, both with or without "Ignore 
Whitespace Changes" (bug?).

The only way for me to solve this is very strange: I have to open a native
Git shell and just execute "git status". One 
would think that's a pure read access command but mysteriously it removes
the bogus changes from my workspace (or the 
EGit index?).

The EGit team tries to blame the Platform Compare framework ( https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=361503
), 
which I can hardly believe. At no time in my 30 years computer life I had
such fundamental problems with line ending 
characters (which I believe are the root cause). This all started with
the advent of EGit.

Am I the only one with these problems, so that I have to revist my config
again (which I've done a hundred times already)?

Cheers
/Eike

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