[Biopython-dev] test for affy.CelFile

[Peter Cock]

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Vincent Davis <vincent at vincentdavis.net> wrote:
>
> I have committed to my branch/fork a small CEL file, modified from original.
> In doing so I discovered CEL file line endings are windows style "\r\n"
> which Git warns about. more info. I committed "as is". Is this going to
> cause any problems? The file can be seen here. "affy_v3_example.CEL"

Given this is a text file, it is best committed as such (git can do the
line ending conversion on Windows while using Unix style within
the repository).

Note that we use the .gitattributes file to overide this to treat a
few text files as binary to deliberately test we can handle both
line ending types in some key file formats:
https://github.com/biopython/biopython/blob/master/.gitattributes

Peter