[PREVIEW] line-endings support

[Talden]

>  I can certainly create multiple rules that would match a single path. In
> that
>  case, do they stack? Does one "win"? What are the rules for that (comes
> first
>  alphabetically, comes first on the search list, comes last on the search
> list,
>  matches more of the filename, etc.)
>
>  If we make the patterns *only* filename extensions *or* absolute paths, we
> can
>  make some of the processing operations a lot faster. And you are a lot less
>  likely to run into problems. But then what do you do about extension-less
> files
>  (Makefile, configure, bzr, etc).

canonicalise the order of patterns - Then we just decide whether the
earliest or latest match takes effect.

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Talden