From 2998aa2312edd158b95f227d915ad400e699eba1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gilles Sadowski Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2022 22:22:08 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add ".gitattributes". Update contributor guidelines. --- .gitattributes | 2 ++ src/site/xdoc/developers.xml | 17 +++++------------ 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) create mode 100644 .gitattributes diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 000000000..db173deb6 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +* text=auto +*.patch -text diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/developers.xml b/src/site/xdoc/developers.xml index 25b4fbfff..386a71fb3 100644 --- a/src/site/xdoc/developers.xml +++ b/src/site/xdoc/developers.xml @@ -152,18 +152,11 @@ Please make sure to set your IDE or editor to use spaces instead of tabs.

- Committers should configure the user.name, - user.email and core.autocrlf - git repository or global settings with git config. - The first two settings define the identity and mail of the committer. - The third setting deals with line endings to achieve consistency - in line endings. Windows users should configure this setting to - true (thus forcing git to convert CR/LF line endings - in the workspace while maintaining LF only line endings in the repository) - while OS X and Linux users should configure it to input - (thus forcing git to only strip accidental CR/LF when committing into - the repository, but never when cheking out files from the repository). See Customizing + Committers should configure the user.name and + user.email and git repository (or global) settings + with git config. + They define the identity and mail of the committer. + See Customizing Git - Git Configuration in the git book for explanation about how to configure these settings and more.