FWIW, I had the same impression as Antoine. I am aware that 'stupid'pad requires /r/n, but do IDLE and other editors (on Windows) that people would actually use to create/edit such files? I would personally be willing to install a notepad replacement if needed to quickview such files.
Visual Studio will create files with CRLF endings. Please don't talk people out of using Visual Studio for development. More generally: please accept that it is consensus that this *has* to be fixed, and that it *is* a problem on Windows.
If essentially all text files need fixed line endings on Windows, then hg really needs this built in. Has it really not been used much on Windows?
I think that's the case. It's pretty much a Unix-only tool, like most of the other DVCS implementations. FWIW, I tried to check out Mozilla (which is in hg), and the check out would always abort with a timeout. Then I downloaded a bundle that they had produced, and try to unbundle it. It took all night, but was complete the other morning. Trying to update the checkout would again make me run into http timeouts. I tried the same on Linux, and it completed within a few minutes. So I conclude that, from a certain project size on, hg is unusable on Windows, atleast on my office machine, running Windows 7. Regards, Martin