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From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
To: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: combined diff does not detect binary files and ignores -diff attribute
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 15:30:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DDA618E.4030604@drmicha.warpmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=FtkiUjwAa7e3KAC5FF3GNxWzd3Q@mail.gmail.com>

Jay Soffian venit, vidit, dixit 22.05.2011 22:12:
> In a merge commit, I added some PNGs (so they were new to both
> parents). I was surprised when I did a "git show" on the commit and
> had the binary bits spewed to the terminal.
> 
> I thought it was just git not detecting the PNG as a binary file, but
> adding "*.png -diff" to .git/info/attributes made no difference.
> 
> Just reporting this for now, as I don't have time to investigate.
> 
> j.

We know, but we somehow got stuck, see:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/171613

I don't have the time to follow up on this currently, it got out of
proportion.

Michael

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-23 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-22 20:12 combined diff does not detect binary files and ignores -diff attribute Jay Soffian
2011-05-23 13:30 ` Michael J Gruber [this message]
2011-05-23 15:17   ` Jay Soffian
2011-05-23 17:07     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-23 18:11     ` Jeff King
2011-05-23 20:15       ` Jeff King
2011-05-23 20:16         ` [PATCH 1/5] combine-diff: split header printing into its own function Jeff King
2011-05-23 20:16         ` [PATCH 2/5] combine-diff: calculate mode_differs earlier Jeff King
2011-05-23 20:27         ` [PATCH 3/5] combine-diff: handle binary files as binary Jeff King
2011-05-23 23:02           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-23 23:50             ` Jeff King
2011-05-30  6:33           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-30 14:36             ` Jeff King
2011-05-30 16:19               ` Jeff King
2011-05-30 19:32                 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-31 22:42               ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-23 20:30         ` [PATCH 4/5] refactor get_textconv to not require diff_filespec Jeff King
2011-05-23 20:31         ` [PATCH 5/5] combine-diff: respect textconv attributes Jeff King
2011-05-23 22:47           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-23 23:39             ` Jeff King
2011-05-24 16:20           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-24 18:52             ` Jeff King
2011-05-23 22:55         ` combined diff does not detect binary files and ignores -diff attribute Jay Soffian
2011-05-23 23:31           ` Jay Soffian
2011-05-23 23:49             ` Jeff King
2011-05-24  0:59               ` Jay Soffian
2011-05-23 23:41           ` Jeff King
2011-05-24  4:46             ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-24  7:19               ` Michael J Gruber
2011-05-24 15:36                 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-24 16:38                   ` Michael J Gruber
2011-05-24 16:43                     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-24 16:52                     ` Jay Soffian
2011-05-24 19:13                 ` Jeff King
2011-05-25  7:38                   ` Michael J Gruber
2011-05-25 15:29                     ` Jeff King
2011-05-24 14:40               ` Jay Soffian

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