Losing Whitespace (Mac -> Windows)

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This wasn’t a problem in the older version of scrivener, now that I’m getting back into this the files all render correctly on a mac, but have no spaces between sentences or paragraphs when opening text that was written on mac, but on the pc. Didn’t see anything similar anywhere else.

At first I thought this might be a git issue or mac using LF instead of CRLF. But the sentence thing has got me wondering. Since the text is no longer plain text files its not something I can just fix myself. To rule out git, I zipped up the file from mac (where it renders correctly) and unzipped it on windows. Anything written on the mac is broken. Anything written on windows is fine.

Help?

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Nevermind it was git. For the next person who wants to deal with this:

If you’re going to use git with scrivener, make sure all the files are treated as binary. In your repo (or globally with the --global flag):

git config core.autocrlf false
git config core.whitespace ""
git config apply.whitespace nowarn

Then create a .gitattributes file in the root of your project with one line of text: * -text"

Combined this ensures all files are treated exactly the same as scrivener expects them to be regardless of which OS you’re on.

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