[Babase] babase_system.xml
Karl O. Pinc
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Tue, 03 May 2005 21:19:43 +0000
On 05/01/2005 02:41:25 PM, Hubbard wrote:
> Thanks Karl!
> The extra text was from the bottom of the document. I think it will
> validate now after moving that text and rearanging things again!
Cool.
There is another problem. All of your lines end in the Microsoft
end-of-line convension, carrage return then line feed.
(Try:
cat -v babase_system.xml | less
to see what I mean.)
We should really stick with the Unix convention of just line-feed.
You are using some sort of a tool that has changed the
end of line convention.
Switching back and forth is especially bad because a change
in the end-of-line means that each line has changed, so the
change tracking system records _every_ line has having
been changed. This obscures the real changes. (And puts
lots of cruft into the archive.)
The commands:
cat babase_system.xml | tr -d '\r' > babase_system.xml.new
mv babase_system.xml.new babase_system.xml
will get rid of the extra carrage returns.
Please commit all your changes and then get rid of the carrage
returns and commit that as a single change.
Also, please commit your changes frequently so we can use your
work as it progresses.
Karl <kop@meme.com>
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