Eclipse and Windows newlines

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I had to move my Eclipse workspace from Linux to Windows when my desktop crashed  A week later I copy it back to Linux  code happily  commit to CVS  And alas  windows newlines have polluted many files  so CVS diff dumps the entire file  even when I changed a line or two   I could cook up a script  but I am wondering if it will mess up my Eclipse project files

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To recursively remove the carriage returns   r  from the CVS   files in all child directories  run the following in a unix shell   find    -wholename    CVS  RE     -exec dos2unix -q -o

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I had the same  eclipse polluted files even with one line change   Solution  Eclipse git settings -  Add Entry  Key  core autocrlf Values  true

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You could give it a try  The problem is that Windows inserts a carriage return as well as a line feed when given a new line  Unix-systems just insert a line feed  So the extra carriage return character could be the reason why your eclipse messes up with the newlines   Grab one or two files from your project and convert them  You could use Notepad   to do so  Just open the file  go to Format- Convert to Unix  when you are using windows    In Linux just try this on a command line     sed  s      echo    r    yourfile java  gt  output java

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There is a handy bash utility - dos2unix -  which is a DOS MAC to UNIX text file format converter  that if not already installed on your distro  should be able to be easily installed via a package manager   dos2unix man page

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In addition to the Eclipse solutions and the tool mentioned in another answer  consider flip  It can  flip  either way between normal and Windows linebreaks  and does nice things like preserve the file s timestamp and other stats   You can use it like this to solve your problem   find   -type f -not -path     git    -exec flip -u          I put in a clause to ignore your  git directory  in case you use git  but since flip ignores binary files by default  you mightn t need this

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As mentioned here and here      Set file encoding to UTF-8 and line-endings for new files to Unix  so that text files are saved in a format that is not specific to the Windows OS and most easily shared across heterogeneous developer desktops          Navigate to the Workspace preferences  General Workspace    Change the Text File Encoding to UTF-8   Change the New Text File Line Delimiter to Other and choose Unix from the pick-list              Note  to convert the line endings of an existing file  open the file in Eclipse and choose File   Convert Line Delimiters to   Unix      Tip  You can easily convert existing file by selecting then in the Package Explorer  and then going to the menu entry File   Convert Line Delimiters to   Unix

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