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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Dimitar Bonev <dsbonev@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add porcelain command to revert a single staged file to its HEAD state while preserving its staged state
Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 11:48:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130504184857.GC25863@elie.Belkin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADeMBopNestsZT4maGr3+tdOBf_Q0ukUbRCbXyucOiZZeHx6nQ@mail.gmail.com>

Dimitar Bonev wrote:

> @ThomasRast: 'git show HEAD:targetfile > targetfile' was proposed in
> the both links that I provided in the email that your replied to, but
> this introduces external dependency to the command interpreter to
> output the file unmodified but not every interpreter does this.
> PowerShell in particular modifies the encoding of the file

That would suggest that "git show" (along with similar commands like
"git diff") should learn an --output= option to avoid its output being
corrupted.  It doesn't leave me very happy.

Is there no way to convince PowerShell to treat the output of a
command as binary data with no particular encoding?

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-04 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-04  7:34 Add porcelain command to revert a single staged file to its HEAD state while preserving its staged state Dimitar Bonev
2013-05-04  8:58 ` Thomas Rast
2013-05-04 11:13   ` Dimitar Bonev
2013-05-04 18:48     ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2013-05-04 19:56   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-04 20:01     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-04 22:46       ` Dimitar Bonev
2013-05-06  9:51         ` Thomas Rast
2013-05-06 14:52         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-07 20:39           ` Dimitar Bonev

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