my strategy on implementing line-endings (eol) support

[Mark Hammond]

> The desire is, for text-files with EOL rules applied, to have the VCS
> normalise EOLs and express them in a defined form, either platform
> native or one specific representation.

Right - I think what I was missing is that files with EOL rules applied will
be normalized internally - so less a "store what I told you" and closer to
"store something slightly different, but give what I gave you".

Cheers,

Mark