software-stack/setup CRLF causes the messes with the terminal cursor

[andreia-oca]

Files with CRLF characters within them are causing the terminal cursor to start before the student@os prompt.

If I attempt to start writing commands, the prompt will be overwritten.

Current workaround:

sudo apt install -y dos2unix
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 dos2unix

[teodutu]

@Alex-deVis I wonder if the container can be configured to mitigate this. Some code taken from other repos such as CLIST uses CRLF and I wish to keep "original" as much as we can.

[Alex-deVis]

Using dos2unix will consider the files changed.
A way to deal with this is by configuring git core.autocrlf option, but I do not know if this can be imposed on the repo.
The other way would be to use a smudge-clean filter.

I do not know if you can do something specific for the container as it bind mounts the repo.

[teodutu]

I do not know if you can do something specific for the container as it bind mounts the repo.

You should be able to fix this on the container side. On a regular Linux system, you can cat a DOS file and it won't mess with your cursor.

[Alex-deVis]

I do not know if you can do something specific for the container as it bind mounts the repo.

You should be able to fix this on the container side. On a regular Linux system, you can cat a DOS file and it won't mess with your cursor.

Now I understand what you mean. I will investigate this.