[R] md5sum issues

[Ivan Calandra]

Thank you very much Duncan for your help. I'll try that.

Best,
Ivan

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On 03/02/2021 11:48, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> In my opinion, you should run
>
>  git config --global core.autocrlf false
>
> in an RStudio terminal session.  That will set the git options so they 
> don't mess up the md5sum values.
>
> You should also go to the RStudio options, and in the Code section, 
> Saving tab, choose Serialization to be Posix (LF) and default text 
> encoding to be UTF-8.
>
> Unfortunately, RStudio will still mess up the .Rproj file (see 
> https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues/1929); there's not much you 
> can do about that.  Just try not to commit the Windows version to the 
> repository if any non-Windows users are sharing it.
>
> But do note that other people have different opinions.  They argue 
> that files should be converted to Windows native format by git. That 
> works in some narrow use cases, but as soon as you try to extract a 
> file from git on one system and work on it on another, it breaks.