From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] diff: introduce diff.<driver>.binary
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:54:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vwsgcbnx4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081013041525.GA32629@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:15:25 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> It's possible that one could, given the binary preimage and the two
> lossy textconv'd versions, produce a custom binary merge that would just
> munge the tags, or just munge the text, or whatever. But that is an
> order of magnitude more work than writing a textconv, which is usually
> as simple as "/path/to/existing/conversion-script".
>
> And the whole point of this exercise was to make it simple to set this
> conversion up.
>
>> I'd say that format-patch should always disable textconv so that we won't
>> have to worry about it for now.
>
> Agreed, if you remove "for now". I had never intended for these to be
> anything but a human-readable display (and while I am generally OK with
> generalizing functionality when we can, I think there is real value in
> the simplicity here).
Ok. I don't disagree with any of the above.
We however need to make it very clear that reversibility (aka ability to
produce applicable diff) is never the goal of the textconv mechanism (and
suggest your "for applicable and reviewable diff, you produce the standard
binary diff and add the textconv diff as a comment" in the documentation),
as I am quite sure that 6 months down the road somebody who was not
involved in this thread would complain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-13 13:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-28 2:06 Implementation of a "textconv" filter for easy custom diff Matthieu Moy
2008-09-28 2:06 ` [PATCH] Facility to have multiple kinds of drivers for diff Matthieu Moy
2008-09-28 2:06 ` [PATCH] Implement run_command_to_buf (spawn a process and reads its stdout) Matthieu Moy
2008-09-28 2:06 ` [PATCH] Implement a textconv filter for "git diff" Matthieu Moy
2008-09-28 2:06 ` [PATCH] Document the textconv filter Matthieu Moy
2008-09-28 2:06 ` [PATCH] Add a basic test for " Matthieu Moy
2008-09-28 11:07 ` [PATCH] Document " Johannes Sixt
2008-09-28 12:29 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-09-28 4:15 ` [PATCH] Implement a textconv filter for "git diff" Jeff King
2008-09-28 10:00 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-09-28 16:12 ` Jeff King
2008-09-28 4:10 ` Implementation of a "textconv" filter for easy custom diff Jeff King
2008-09-28 9:57 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-09-28 16:11 ` Jeff King
2008-09-30 15:19 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-09-30 16:45 ` Jeff King
2008-10-05 21:41 ` [PATCH 0/4] diff text conversion filter Jeff King
2008-10-05 21:42 ` [PATCH 1/4] t4012: use test_cmp instead of cmp Jeff King
2008-10-05 21:43 ` [PATCH 2/4] diff: unify external diff and funcname parsing code Jeff King
2008-10-05 21:43 ` [PATCH 3/4] diff: introduce diff.<driver>.binary Jeff King
2008-10-07 15:17 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-10-07 15:35 ` Jeff King
2008-10-07 15:54 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-10-12 5:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-13 1:23 ` Jeff King
2008-10-13 4:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-13 4:15 ` Jeff King
2008-10-13 6:10 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-10-13 13:54 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-10-13 8:12 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-10-24 2:46 ` Jeff King
2008-10-24 2:48 ` [PATCH 1/5] diff: add missing static declaration Jeff King
2008-10-24 2:50 ` [PATCH 2/5] add userdiff textconv tests Jeff King
2008-10-24 2:53 ` [PATCH 3/5] refactor userdiff textconv code Jeff King
2008-10-24 7:15 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-10-24 12:40 ` Jeff King
2008-10-24 13:51 ` Jeff King
2008-10-24 14:01 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-10-24 14:08 ` Jeff King
2008-10-24 21:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-24 22:50 ` Jeff King
2008-10-24 22:56 ` Jeff King
2008-10-25 0:48 ` Jeff King
2008-10-25 0:50 ` [PATCH 1/7] diff: add missing static declaration Jeff King
2008-10-25 0:51 ` [PATCH 2/7] add userdiff textconv tests Jeff King
2008-10-25 0:52 ` [PATCH 3/7] textconv: assume text-converted contents are not binary Jeff King
2008-10-25 0:52 ` [PATCH 4/7] textconv: don't convert for every operation Jeff King
2008-10-25 5:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-25 7:19 ` Jeff King
2008-10-25 18:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-25 19:35 ` Jeff King
2008-10-25 23:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-25 23:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-26 4:52 ` Jeff King
2008-10-26 4:38 ` Jeff King
2008-10-26 4:41 ` [PATCH v3 1/8] diff: add missing static declaration Jeff King
2008-10-26 4:41 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] document the diff driver textconv feature Jeff King
2008-10-26 4:42 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] add userdiff textconv tests Jeff King
2008-10-26 4:44 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] refactor userdiff textconv code Jeff King
2008-10-26 4:45 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] userdiff: require explicitly allowing textconv Jeff King
2008-10-26 4:46 ` [PATCH v3 6/8] only textconv regular files Jeff King
2008-10-26 4:49 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] wt-status: load diff ui config Jeff King
2008-10-27 5:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-27 8:23 ` Jeff King
2008-10-26 4:50 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] enable textconv for diff in verbose status/commit Jeff King
2008-10-25 0:54 ` [PATCH 5/7] userdiff: require explicitly allowing textconv Jeff King
2008-10-25 0:54 ` [PATCH 6/7] document the diff driver textconv feature Jeff King
2008-10-25 0:55 ` [PATCH 7/7] only textconv regular files Jeff King
2008-10-24 2:55 ` [PATCH 4/5] userdiff: require explicitly allowing textconv Jeff King
2008-10-24 7:04 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-10-24 2:56 ` [PATCH 5/5] document the diff driver textconv feature Jeff King
2008-10-24 7:02 ` [PATCH 3/4] diff: introduce diff.<driver>.binary Johannes Sixt
2008-10-05 21:43 ` [PATCH 4/4] diff: add filter for converting binary to text Jeff King
2008-10-05 22:03 ` [PATCH 0/4] diff text conversion filter Jakub Narebski
2008-10-06 6:29 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-10-06 6:52 ` Jeff King
2008-10-06 8:55 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-10-06 15:15 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-10-07 1:20 ` Jeff King
2008-10-07 5:52 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-10-07 6:00 ` Jeff King
2008-10-07 6:15 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-10-07 15:46 ` Jeff King
2008-10-07 16:15 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-10-13 1:29 ` Jeff King
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