[jira] [Created] (JENA-409) Test failures building on windows after GIT pull

["Brian McBride (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Brian McBride created JENA-409:
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             Summary: Test failures building on windows after GIT pull
                 Key: JENA-409
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-409
             Project: Apache Jena
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: ARQ
         Environment: Windows8 GIT
            Reporter: Brian McBride
            Priority: Minor


On windows (8):

  Pull all branches from the GIT mirror
  Switch to trunk branch
  mvn clean install

results in test failures.

The tests that are failing are RIOT Turtle parser tests involving multiline literals.  The input files are:

jena-arq/testing/RIOT/Lang/Turtle/turtle-subm-15.ttl
jena-arq/testing/RIOT/Lang/Turtle/turtle-subm-16.ttl
jena-arq/testing/RIOT/Lang/TurtleSubm/test-17.ttl
jena-arq/testing/RIOT/Lang/TurtleSubm/test-18.ttl

The reason the tests are failing is that by default, GIT changes the line endings of text files to the platform default line endings on checkout.  Therefore, on checking out from GIT, the LF characters within the multiline literals in these files are replaced by CR LF.  When parsed the literals then do not match the expected results.  They have unexpected CR characters in them.

To fix this, I have created a .gitattributes file in the Jena root directory that tells GIT to use LF line endings for these four files.

After checking this file in and then doing:

git rm --cached -r .
git reset --hard
git add .
git commit -m "Normalize line endings"

then Jena builds fine.  I would expect that if such a .gitattributes file were in the GIT repository when I did the pull, the build would just work out of the box, but I don't know that to be the case.
 






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