From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Matthieu Moy" <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
"Kirill Smelkov" <kirr@landau.phys.spbu.ru>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Axel Bonnet" <axel.bonnet@ensimag.imag.fr>,
"Clément Poulain" <clement.poulain@ensimag.imag.fr>,
"Diane Gasselin" <diane.gasselin@ensimag.imag.fr>
Subject: Re: [BUG, PATCH 0/3] Fix {blame,cat-file} --textconv for cases with symlinks
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:57:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vaanbuggr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100920180046.GA1790@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon\, 20 Sep 2010 14\:00\:46 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> The one thing this does not enable is using a special diff driver on the
> _pathnames_ of symlinks. Since these are by-definition text, I don't
> know why anyone would want to do that. But it is an orthogonal problem,
> anyway. We would need some way in the .gitattributes or the .gitconfig
> to say "this is the diff driver to use not based on pathname matching,
> but based on the file's mode". E.g., a special "SYMLINK" diff driver
> like:
>
> [diff "SYMLINK"]
> textconv = pointless-munge
>
> But again, I have no idea why anyone would want such a feature, so it is
> not worth thinking too hard about it.
I agree with you; pointless-munge would just be 'printf "%s\n"' ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-21 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-18 17:25 [BUG, PATCH 0/3] Fix {blame,cat-file} --textconv for cases with symlinks Kirill Smelkov
2010-09-18 17:25 ` [PATCH 1/3] tests: Prepare --textconv tests for correctly-failing conversion program Kirill Smelkov
2010-09-18 19:14 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-09-18 17:25 ` [PATCH 2/3] blame,cat-file: Demonstrate --textconv is wrongly running converter on symlinks Kirill Smelkov
2010-09-18 19:26 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-09-18 17:25 ` [PATCH 3/3] RFC: blame,cat-file --textconv: Don't assume mode is ``S_IFREF | 0664'' Kirill Smelkov
2010-09-18 19:04 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-09-20 18:21 ` Jeff King
2010-09-20 20:35 ` [PATCH 1/3] tests: Prepare --textconv tests for correctly-failing conversion program Kirill Smelkov
2010-09-20 21:03 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-09-21 18:39 ` Kirill Smelkov
2010-09-20 21:01 ` [PATCH] sha1_name.c: update comment to mention :/foo syntax Matthieu Moy
2010-09-21 18:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-09-21 20:06 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-09-21 23:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-09-24 16:43 ` [PATCH] update comment and documentation for " Matthieu Moy
2010-09-18 18:08 ` [BUG, PATCH 0/3] Fix {blame,cat-file} --textconv for cases with symlinks Matthieu Moy
2010-09-18 20:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-09-19 8:58 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-09-19 18:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-09-20 18:00 ` Jeff King
2010-09-20 20:18 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-09-21 17:57 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2010-09-21 18:42 ` Jeff King
2010-09-21 18:56 ` Jeff King
2010-09-21 20:59 ` [PATCH 0/2] better userdiff behavior for symlinks Jeff King
2010-09-21 21:01 ` [PATCH 1/2] diff: don't use pathname-based diff drivers " Jeff King
2010-09-22 5:40 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-09-22 5:50 ` Jeff King
2010-09-21 21:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] diff: add a special SYMLINK user-diff driver Jeff King
2010-09-22 0:12 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-22 0:30 ` Jeff King
2010-09-22 0:39 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-22 5:53 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-09-22 16:59 ` Matthieu Moy
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