Documentation on Line Endings
Changed the git documentation on how to avoid problems with line endings.
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| 2022/11/09 | LScheffler | Docu | **Enhancement**: Documentation for git on handling line endings |
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| 2022/06/13 | LScheffler | [v1.19.76](https://github.com/fdbozzo/foxbin2prg/releases/tag/v1.19.76) | **Bug Fix**: On operation per folder, change of folder must change configuration (JoergSchneider) |
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| 2022/06/08 | LScheffler | [v1.19.75](https://github.com/fdbozzo/foxbin2prg/releases/tag/v1.19.75) | **Bug Fix**: Multiple text2bin and bin2text conversion on MNX causes space grow (JoergSchneider) |
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| | | [ | **Enhancement**: Typo in German (JoergSchneider) |
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This project is part of [VFPX](https://vfpx.github.io/).
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----
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Last changed: _2022/06/13_ 
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Last changed: _2022/11/09_ 
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@@ -12,8 +12,10 @@ See [Use with SCM tools](./FoxBin2Prg_SCM.md)
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- [Tools](#tools)
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- [Recomendations](#recomendations)
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- [git settings](#git-settings)
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- [gitignore](#gitignore)
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- [config](#config)
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- [settings per project](#settings-per-project)
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- [gitignore](#gitignore)
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- [gitattributes](#gitattributes)
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- [config](#foxbin2prg-config)
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## Introduction
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As we all know, there is a whole bunch of tools that we might use to colaborate and to version our work.
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- It's complex. If a GUI does something wrong, you need to go to the bash anyway.
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- Note, every git-GUI is simple a tool that needs git to run original commands.
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- It's simple. For day to day work, it's some easy to learn commands.
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- The little visual need I have, and yes, some commands too, run on gitk, what ships with git
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- The little visual need I have, and yes, some commands too, run on gitk, what ships with git for windows
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- bash, because all help out of the web comes in 'nix style, rethink to the windows world is to much work.
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- working on the command line gives ideas of doing the stuff using the Fox, and we are programmmers, are we?
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- since we have those extra step to create _Text_ and _Binary_ around the git repo, any GUI is awkward.
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## Recomendations
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#### Short about git
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The first one must understand here, git is set up to deal with text based files.
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It's a Linux tool developed to deal with the Kernel code.
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It's a Linux tool developed to deal with Linux - the Kernel code.
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Highly sophisticated, neat, fast.
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So storing binaries into it is something one should avoid as far as possible.
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If you go for the _lib.baseclass.classname.vc2_ or _lib.classname.vc2_ style is a matter of taste.
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I can see baseclass on classname, so there is not much value, other might think different.
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But split into classes makes life easy.
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This is to be done in the [config file](#config), setting _UseClassPerFile_ option to 1 or 2.
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This is to be done in the [config file](#foxbin2prg-config), setting _UseClassPerFile_ option to 1 or 2.
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#### Forms
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Side effect of splitting VCX is that SCX will be split into 3 files too.
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If you like it separated from VCX - let me know.
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#### Databases
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Splitting DBC is possible too. My approach does not touch the DBC _structure_ (it's meta data only) in the source over decades, so there is little use.
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Splitting DBC is possible too. My approach does not touch the DBC _structure_ (it's meta data only) in the source over decades,
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so there is little use.
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So I've added an option to inhibit splitting DBC while splitting VCX/SCX.
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#### Tables
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All the other table-based-sources of VFP work seamless as _Text_. No fuzz.
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### git settings
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Those settings are mainly per user (in _git_ terms **global**)
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Assuming you do a fresh install of git, you will be asked questions over questions. The most you left unchanged.
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The one I recommend is the dealing with line endings. You know all the odd uses of LF and CR.
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_git for windows_ offers to alter this while dealing with your files. I recommend not. Just "Check in as is, check out as is".
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_git_ offers to alter this while dealing with your files. I recommend not.
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Just "Check in as is, check out as is" while installing _git for windows_.
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This will keep your files, and any modern editor or WEB UI will not care anyway.
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If you missed on install - just install again.
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For some odd reasons, the people on git-scm are going the way of evil. If you start the Setup of git, all depends who you are.
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If you not check _Run as Adminstrator_, it will install into your user folder. Even if installed in Programs folder earlier!
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#### Note
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It's your taste to install 64 or 32 bit versions. Calling 64bit from the fox is odd, to say the least.
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If you don't have no other needs, use 32bit.
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### gitignore
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### Settings per project
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Those settings are mainly per project (in _git_ terms **local**). One can argue to put the one or other in different levels.
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I recommend those inside the project to keep the repository as self contained as possible.
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#### gitignore
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The _.gitignore_ file controls which files **go not** into the git repository by default. It goes by folder with inheritance.
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If you understand the inheritance of .gitignore, you grok FoXBin2Prg.cfg and vice versa. Very close.
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If you understand the inheritance of .gitignore, you grok [FoXBin2Prg.cfg](#foxbin2prg-config) and vice versa. Very close.
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But git would not be git if one could not teach .gitignore to define the files **included**.
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Again, see pro-git.
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#include special
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#default git
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!*.gitignore
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!*.gitattributes
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!/desktop.ini
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#desktop.ini. usless? no! it keeeps the folder icon!
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@@ -258,10 +265,25 @@ I think I will swap to use them as _Text_ too, since version 1.19.55 of FoxBin2P
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Also this approach ignores any bak / log / tmp / err files by default.
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### config
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#### gitattributes
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The _.gitattributes_ file controls some things that might be set to as local computer / user / repository (via _git config_),
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but should be constant to the repository, no matter the local settings. This file is included into the repository.
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for VFP purposes, it controls the processing of line ending on commit / checkout.
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As mentioned [above](#git-settings) git might manipulate CRLF and LF. If the settings are different on different computers ,
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it might checkout with LF instead of CRLF. This creates useless files in the commit, but also might create havoc using the files.
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See [this](https://github.com/VFPX/GoFish/issues/27) for an example.
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To solve this, add a _.gitattributes_ file to any of your projects, next to the _.gitignore_ file. It should look like this:
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````
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#.gitattributes
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# disable newline conversion on checkout with no conversion on check-in for all files
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* -text
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````
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If you have a project running, check the line endings and make shure they follow DOS standard CRLF.
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#### FoxBin2Prg config
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The config of FoxBin2Prg using FoxBin2Prg.cfg files is relative simple. As you might see above, I carry the file within the repo.
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The good on this is, if I change my mind and alter settings in it, FoxBin2Prg will find the setting that fit to the data on each commit.
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If I have to checkout old stuff.
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If I have to checkout old stuff - the setting will fit.
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````
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*################################################################################################################
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This project is part of [VFPX](https://vfpx.github.io/).
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Last changed: _2022/06/10_ 
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