Lessons learned from handling text end-of-line conventions?

[Ben Finney]

Howdy all,

Over on Python's development list, in duscussion of migration of the
code base from Subversion to Mercurial, a sub-thread has arisen over
the differences in capability for handling end-of-line conventions in
files.

Significantly, at least one Mercurial developer has devoted attention to
the discussion in the interest of perhaps improving Mercurial's
capability in this area.

I know that Bazaar's behaviour has recently gone through similar pains
to handle end-of-line conventions. I didn't follow it very closely at
the time, though. Does anyone have a good link or three that I can
recommend the Mercurial team to read for avoiding some of the pitfalls
that Bazaar now knows through hindsight?

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