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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] diff: respect textconv in rewrite diffs
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:34:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v3agw2zu5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20081209081321.GA19707@coredump.intra.peff.net

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Currently we just skip rewrite diffs for binary files; this patch makes
> an exception for files which will be textconv'd, and actually performs
> the textconv before generating the diff.
>
> Conceptually, rewrite diffs should be in the exact same format as the a
> non-rewrite diff, except that we refuse to share any context. Thus it
> makes very little sense for "git diff" to show a textconv'd diff, but
> for "git diff -B" to show "Binary files differ".

Makes sense.

> +cat >dump <<'EOF'
> +#!/bin/sh
> +perl -e '$/ = undef; $_ = <>; s/./ord($&)/ge; print $_' < "$1"
> +EOF

I'll squash in a change to make this part use $SHELL_PATH for
consistency.  Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-10  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-09  8:12 [PATCH 1/2] diff: fix handling of binary rewrite diffs Jeff King
2008-12-09  8:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] diff: respect textconv in " Jeff King
2008-12-10  8:34   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-12-10  9:02     ` Jeff King
2008-12-10 20:27       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-10  8:34 ` [PATCH 1/2] diff: fix handling of binary " Junio C Hamano
2008-12-10  9:04   ` Jeff King

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