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+; System-wide Mercurial config file.  To override these settings on a
+; per-user basis, please edit the following file instead, where
+; USERNAME is your Windows user name:
+;   C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Mercurial.ini
+
+; By default, we try to encode and decode all files that do not
+; contain ASCII NUL characters.  What this means is that we try to set
+; line endings to Windows style on update, and to Unix style on
+; commit.  This lets us cooperate with Linux and Unix users, so
+; everybody sees files with their native line endings.
+
+[extensions]
+; The win32text extension is available and installed by default.  It
+; provides built-in Python hooks to perform line ending conversions.
+; This is normally much faster than running an external program.
+mercurial.ext.win32text =
+
+
+[encode]
+; Encode files that don't contain NUL characters.
+** = cleverencode:
+
+; Alternatively, you can explicitly specify each file extension that
+; you want encoded (any you omit will be left untouched), like this:
+
+; *.txt = dumbencode:
+
+
+[decode]
+; Decode files that don't contain NUL characters.
+** = cleverdecode:
+
+; Alternatively, you can explicitly specify each file extension that
+; you want decoded (any you omit will be left untouched), like this:
+
+; **.txt = dumbdecode: