How can I ensure that the line ending in a file should remain consistent across different contributors’?
I am currently working on a specific task that is related to working on a collaborative Software project by using git. In this specific task, I need to ensure that the line ending in a particular file should remain consistent across different contributors’ environments. How can I use git for configuring line ending settings and prevent the automated conversion of line endings whenever the git interacts with that particular file?
In the context of Salesforce, if you want to prevent the automation of line-ending conversions for a particular file in a repository of git, then you can use the “git attributes” file. This file would allow you to specify how the grit treats line endings for the different files. Here is how you can achieve it:-
Firstly, you would need to create or edit the “git attribute” file in the particular root of your git repository.
Now you would need to add an entry for the particular file to instruct git that it should not perform line-ending conversions.
# .gitattributesExample.txt -text
This above approach would ensure that the line ending should not be changed (CRLF to LF or vice versa) whenever the git interacts with the specified file, which provides consistency across the environment of contributors.