diff --git a/gcl.py b/gcl.py
index df49a3147..a2e15a5eb 100755
--- a/gcl.py
+++ b/gcl.py
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ import tempfile
 import upload
 import urllib2
 
+
+__version__ = '1.0'
+
+
 CODEREVIEW_SETTINGS = {
   # Default values.
   "CODE_REVIEW_SERVER": "codereview.chromium.org",
@@ -199,9 +203,9 @@ def RunShell(command, print_output=False):
   return RunShellWithReturnCode(command, print_output)[0]
 
 
-def ReadFile(filename):
+def ReadFile(filename, flags='r'):
   """Returns the contents of a file."""
-  file = open(filename, 'r')
+  file = open(filename, flags)
   result = file.read()
   file.close()
   return result
@@ -572,6 +576,7 @@ def Help(argv=None):
 
   print (
 """GCL is a wrapper for Subversion that simplifies working with groups of files.
+version """ + __version__ + """
 
 Basic commands:
 -----------------------------------------
diff --git a/presubmit.py b/presubmit.py
index f2155de74..c90b60546 100755
--- a/presubmit.py
+++ b/presubmit.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 """Enables directory-specific presubmit checks to run at upload and/or commit.
 """
 
-__version__ = '1.0'
+__version__ = '1.0.1'
 
 # TODO(joi) Add caching where appropriate/needed. The API is designed to allow
 # caching (between all different invocations of presubmit scripts for a given
@@ -629,7 +629,8 @@ def DoPresubmitChecks(change_info,
   for filename in presubmit_files:
     if verbose:
       print "Running %s" % filename
-    presubmit_script = gcl.ReadFile(filename)
+    # Accept CRLF presubmit script.
+    presubmit_script = gcl.ReadFile(filename, 'Ur')
     results += executer.ExecPresubmitScript(presubmit_script, filename)
 
   errors = []
diff --git a/tests/presubmit_unittest.py b/tests/presubmit_unittest.py
index f0ee66117..cff22e6f0 100755
--- a/tests/presubmit_unittest.py
+++ b/tests/presubmit_unittest.py
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ class PresubmitTestsBase(unittest.TestCase):
     gcl.GetSVNFileProperty = MockGetSVNFileProperty
 
     self.original_ReadFile = gcl.ReadFile
-    def MockReadFile(path):
+    def MockReadFile(path, dummy='r'):
       if path.count('nosuchfile'):
         return None
       elif path.endswith('isdir'):