PEP 385: introduce section on newline issues.

pep-0385.txt

@@ -200,6 +200,21 @@ developed and deployed. The following hooks are being used:
   registered contributors. Then, the hook might warn users that push a group
   of revisions containing changesets from unknown contributors.
 
+End-of-line conversions
+-----------------------
+
+There has been some discussion about the lack of end-of-line conversion support
+in Mercurial. While Mercurial comes with a win32text extension that provides
+some basic support for converting end-of-line data on a file-name pattern
+basis, the lack of exclusion (for specifying broad rules with exceptions) and
+the use of hgrc files (which can't be versioned) make it less than ideal.
+
+I think the primary line of defense for prevention of inappropriate newlines
+should be hooks on the server side which basically turn down any changegroup
+or changeset introducing such data. The use of the win32text extension (which
+can hopefully be improved/extended to support the usage scenarios mentioned
+above) and/or a commit-time hook could be the first line of defense.
+
 hgwebdir
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