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From: Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't search files with an unset "grep" attribute
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:51:52 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1af46e50-fdc5-47b8-af36-d070d91dd954@mail> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120125214625.GA4666@sigill.intra.peff.net>

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:46:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't search files with an unset "grep" attribute
>
> ... snip ...
> 
> So if this was all spelled:
> 
>   $ cat .gitattributes
>   *.pdf filetype=pdf
>   $ cat .git/config
>   [filetype "pdf"]
>           binary = true
>           textconv = pdf2txt
> 
> I think it would be a no-brainer that those type attributes should
> apply to "git grep".

Looking at this purely as a user, what difference/advantage would that bring versus

  $ cat .gitattributes
  *.pdf binary=true textconv=pdf2text

or

  $ cat .gitattributes
  [attr]pdf binary=true textconv=pdf2text
  *.pdf pdf

(admittedly I have no clue if gitattributes actually supports anything like this)

I guess my point is as a user, I've gravitated to "gitattributes is about files in my repo, gitconfig is about Git's behavior" (though this is a grey area).

To partially answer my own question: one advantage of putting the filetype information in a config file is it allows system- and user-wide filetype settings.  In my personal experience I've always handled that information on a per-repository basis, but that doesn't mean everyone would want to.

Thanks,
Stephen

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-26 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-17  9:14 git-grep while excluding files in a blacklist Dov Grobgeld
2012-01-17  9:19 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-01-17 20:09   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-18  1:24     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-01-23  9:37       ` [PATCH] Don't search files with an unset "grep" attribute conrad.irwin
2012-01-23 18:33         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-23 22:59           ` Conrad Irwin
2012-01-24  6:59             ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-25 21:46               ` Jeff King
2012-01-26 13:51                 ` Stephen Bash [this message]
2012-01-26 17:29                   ` Jeff King
2012-01-26 16:45                 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-01-27  6:35                   ` Jeff King
2012-02-01  8:01                 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-01  8:20                   ` Jeff King
2012-02-01  9:10                     ` Jeff King
2012-02-01  9:28                       ` Conrad Irwin
2012-02-01 22:14                         ` Jeff King
2012-02-01 23:20                           ` Jeff King
2012-02-02  2:03                             ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-01 23:21                           ` [PATCH 1/2] grep: let grep_buffer callers specify a binary flag Jeff King
2012-02-02  0:47                             ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-02  0:52                               ` Jeff King
2012-02-02  8:17                                 ` [PATCH 0/9] respect binary attribute in grep Jeff King
2012-02-02  8:18                                   ` [PATCH 1/9] grep: make locking flag global Jeff King
2012-02-02  8:18                                   ` [PATCH 2/9] grep: move sha1-reading mutex into low-level code Jeff King
2012-02-02  8:19                                   ` [PATCH 3/9] grep: refactor the concept of "grep source" into an object Jeff King
2012-02-02  8:19                                   ` [PATCH 4/9] convert git-grep to use grep_source interface Jeff King
2012-02-02  8:20                                   ` [PATCH 5/9] grep: drop grep_buffer's "name" parameter Jeff King
2012-02-02  8:20                                   ` [PATCH 6/9] grep: cache userdiff_driver in grep_source Jeff King
2012-02-02 18:34                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-02 19:37                                       ` Jeff King
2012-02-02  8:21                                   ` [PATCH 7/9] grep: respect diff attributes for binary-ness Jeff King
2012-02-02  8:21                                   ` [PATCH 8/9] grep: load file data after checking binary-ness Jeff King
2012-02-02  8:24                                   ` [PATCH 9/9] grep: pre-load userdiff drivers when threaded Jeff King
2012-02-02  8:30                                   ` [PATCH 0/9] respect binary attribute in grep Jeff King
2012-02-02 11:00                                   ` Thomas Rast
2012-02-02 11:07                                     ` Jeff King
2012-02-02 18:39                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-04 19:22                                   ` Pete Wyckoff
2012-02-04 23:18                                     ` Jeff King
2012-02-01 23:21                           ` [PATCH 2/2] grep: respect diff attributes for binary-ness Jeff King
2012-02-01 16:28                       ` [PATCH] Don't search files with an unset "grep" attribute Junio C Hamano

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