[MERGE] Rule-based preferences (EOL part 1 of 3)

[Ian Clatworthy]

Paul Moore wrote:

> I'm hardly an expert on Mercurial's EOL support, but I may be able to
> help. Can you clarify what you mean by "that level"?
> 
> Mercurial picks up EOL settings from the mercurial.ini (hgrc) file,
> which is loaded from a number of places - installation-level,
> system-level, user-level and repository-level. However, the settings
> files are not versioned (even the repo-level one) and so will not be
> copied around as part of clone operations.
> 
> Does that help at all?

Yes thanks. Storage at the repo level means they do indeed support things at
the level I think we need to.

Ian C.