Enforce Line Endings

[krowvin]

Problem

line endings are left up to each person’s editor and local Git config causing CRLF or LF to be placed in files depending on who is committing and from what system.

Background

If you are not paying attention to the commit you might miss that line endings were added.

It is a particular issue in the VSCode editor where a diff in the UI does not visually show the line endings.

Personally the UI works well enough and I have no need to be in the terminal enough to check each diff to see if I accidentally committed line endings that I have enabled in my git config on one system vs another

But I did confirm i'm not the only one embarrassing myself with altering line endings often!

microsoft/vscode#19254

Solution

Add a .gitattributes to enforce line endings

[MikeNeilson]

It also doesn't help that the github actions windows runner... does not handle line endings in the same way that your desktop windows usage does.

At least within all the cwms modules we should make use of .gitattributes a rather stern requirement.