Generate gitattributes file

[xenoterracide]

it's annoying when I create a new project, the first thing I have to do is copy my .gitattributes from somewhere else lest something be committed incorrectly (like line ending fixes to lf in a .bat. autocrlf isn't really the recommended way to go these days. The best way is gitattributes. This is a good enough default for .gitattributes since these are the extensions/files that will get generated. I'm not certain if you generate with mvnw if you do then you will need to update for that.

* text=auto eol=lf
*.sh text eol=lf
*.bat text eol=crlf
*.jar -text
/gradlew text eol=lf

bat, cmd, ps will not work with lf line endings, any variant of an sh will not work with crlf, even on a windows bash (last time I tried) that's why this should be done.

[mhalbritter]

For reference, this is what gradle init creates:

#
# https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-line-endings/
#
# Linux start script should use lf
/gradlew        text eol=lf

# These are Windows script files and should use crlf
*.bat           text eol=crlf

# Binary files should be left untouched
*.jar           binary

When creating such a .gitattributes file, this overrides git's core.autocrlf setting: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/getting-started-with-git/configuring-git-to-handle-line-endings#per-repository-settings

// Edit: It only overwrites core.autocrlf for files which are specified in the .gitattributes and habe the eol= attribute set.

So, if we only look at files we create, we'd end up with:

# Gradle
/gradlew text eol=lf
*.bat text eol=crlf
*.jar binary

# Maven
/mvnw text eol=lf
*.cmd text eol=crlf

I'd talk about this with the team.

[xenoterracide]

in the .gitattributes documentation I saw that it says that it now recommends -text

Well I guess I learned something new today, binary is a macro that includes -text

https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes#_defining_macro_attributes

I'd be happy with this as this is really only a problem for me when I'm trying to throw something quick together to give people as an example.

[mhalbritter]

Hey,

we talked about that in our meeting and we agreed that we should add a .gitattributes file.