How to specify file properties when checking in new files with scm command line

Answer

You can use a "magic" file to change the default mapping between the file name extensions and the line delimiter types if using "scm" command line to share a project or check in a file.

The magic file can be created following the steps below.

1. Create a new "magic.properties" file.
   
   This file resides in the following directory, by default:
   
   UNIX and Linux: HOME/.jazz-scm/
   
   Windows: LOCALAPPDATA\jazz-scm\
   (For Windows 7, LOCALAPPDATA defaults to C:\Users\userid\AppData\Local.)
   
   
2. Edit the magic.properties file in the format below:
   
   *.txt: delim: lf
*: delim: platform
   
   where the "delim" keyword may have any one of the following values:
• lf indicating that line feeds (ASCII 0x0a) are newlines within the file
• cr indicating that carriage returns (ASCII 0x0d) are newlines within the file
• crlf indicating that carriage-return/line-feed pairs are considered newlines within the file
• platform indicating that RTC should use the platform-specific character to denote newlines
• none indicating that no newline conversion should occur.
  
  

Note: If you save the "magic.properties" file to an alternate directory instead of your home directory, you can specify that it be read from this alternate directory by setting the environment variable SCM_CONFIG_DIRECTORY. Set it to the full path of the jazz-scm directory, for example, C:\temp\jazz-scm.