[chef] Re: RE: Re: RE: RE: Newlines in templates

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 9:03 AM, THARP, JOSHUA L 
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> I am using Git, and with a little work (and a global setting that affects
> all repositories) I can have it change the newlines. However, the question
> remains if it is possible for Chef to do newline conversions. If I’m editing
> on a Windows PC, and I upload my cookbook – targeting a *nix platform – the
> cookbook is going to have the wrong line endings, and many Linux
> configuration files as well as shell interpreters are sensitive to the line
> endings. I would think mine is a fairly common scenario.

Joshua,

While that's true, there's no sensible default that Chef could take.
What if you're managing a mixed Linux/Windows infrastructure with
Chef, and some of the templates need Windows-format line-endings and
others need Unix-format ones?

- Julian

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