From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: explain diff.*.binary option Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:31:12 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20110105051807.GB5884@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20110109201003.GA4406@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 09 21:32:59 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pc1wg-0003QB-1L for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:32:58 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751964Ab1AIUb0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jan 2011 15:31:26 -0500 Received: from mx2.imag.fr ([129.88.30.17]:44672 "EHLO rominette.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750835Ab1AIUbZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jan 2011 15:31:25 -0500 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by rominette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p09KVAef032492 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 9 Jan 2011 21:31:10 +0100 Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pc1uy-00014D-Ci; Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:31:12 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20110109201003.GA4406@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Sun\, 9 Jan 2011 15\:10\:04 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (rominette.imag.fr [129.88.30.17]); Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:31:10 +0100 (CET) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: p09KVAef032492 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1295209873.96246@0WIGvfh6E8k3ekAL9PsdWw Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King writes: > This was added long ago as part of the userdiff refactoring > for textconv, as internally it made the code simpler and > cleaner. However, there was never a concrete use case for > actually using the config variable. > > Now that Matthieu Moy has provided such a use case, it's > easy to explain it using his example. > > Signed-off-by: Jeff King Acked-by: Matthieu Moy Thanks, -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/