[PREVIEW] line-endings support

[Alexander Belchenko]

Ian Clatworthy пишет:
> Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> 
>>> So if our initial cut of eol support stored it's settings in user
>>> configuration files (like bazaar.conf and locations.conf), that would be
>>> a problem? Or just suboptimal?
>> In my understanding using bazaar.conf to store this properties -- means
>> follow mercurial way. And this is way to nowhere.
> 
> Apologies if this sounds dumb but I'd like someone to explicitly explain
> why the Mercurial approach isn't good enough.
> 
> I'm not saying you're wrong - I'm just trying to learn more about the
> various options and their pros and cons.

May be I will wrote detailed analysis why I think hg approach is fragile.
But for now you can look at the sources of their win32text extension
and this thread:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.mercurial.general/6906

And also on all bugs in hg BTS related to this problem.