From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: What's cooking in git/spearce.git (Oct 2008, #01; Mon, 06) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 17:03:03 -0400 Message-ID: <20081006210303.GA30812@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <20081006165943.GG8203@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 06 23:04:32 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KmxFc-0001Wk-Sf for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:04:21 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752422AbYJFVDJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 17:03:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752401AbYJFVDI (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 17:03:08 -0400 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:2405 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752392AbYJFVDH (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 17:03:07 -0400 Received: (qmail 25304 invoked by uid 111); 6 Oct 2008 21:03:04 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with SMTP; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:03:04 -0400 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:03:03 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081006165943.GG8203@spearce.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:59:43AM -0700, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > * jk/diff-convfilter (Sun Oct 5 17:43:45 2008 -0400) 4 commits > - diff: add filter for converting binary to text > - diff: introduce diff..binary > - diff: unify external diff and funcname parsing code > - t4012: use test_cmp instead of cmp > > A general cleanup on how diff drivers are implemented. Its still > missing documentation updates and tests but doesn't break anything > current as far as I can tell. It needs more review before it can > be slated for 'next'. I should note, too, that this is in direct competition with Matthieu Moy's "Implementation of a textconv filter for easy custom diff" posted about a week ago. So if you are reviewing this series, please review both and decide which you think is more sensible. -Peff