One more point, which I'm sure will be inflammatory. After all, it has nothing to do with anything, but let's look at how svn deals with EOL issues: 1) A property for whether a file is binary or text 2) A property for the EOL style which applies only to text files: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.props.file-portability.html#svn.advanced.props.special.eol-style And Mercurial's plan to deal with it: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/EOLTranslationPlan :-) j. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html