When your team develops software on more than one kind of platform, differences in platform conventions for line termination in text files can affect content merges and other development tasks. By default, Rational Team Concert source control stores text files in a normalized format, and follows the workspace platform line delimiter convention when loading a file into a local workspace. For more information, see File content types and line delimiters.
Eclipse includes a File Content preference page that maps filename extensions to content types. Rational Team Concert source control reads these mappings and uses them when establishing file properties and it also provides its own File Properties preference page. Using this page to associate a MIME content type and line delimiter type with a file name suffix is an important step in putting a project under Rational Team Concert source control. To open this page:
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