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From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
	git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: combined diff does not detect binary files and ignores -diff attribute
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 10:40:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTikxcnR_f6UEATfKTDZcq51Cv8V0TQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v39k4aeos.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
>>> However, custom diff drivers (still) don't work. :-)
>>
>> Yeah, I didn't add any support for that. I'm not sure what it should do;
>> custom diff drivers don't know how to handle combined diff, do they?
>>
>> If you write me a test case that explains what _should_ happen, I'll see
>> what I can do. :)
>
> I do not think it is sensible to expect anybody to come up with a sane
> semantics for combined diff to work with GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF (and external
> diff driver that can be specified via the attributes mechanism) in any
> meaningful way.

Indeed, it was a thinko that I even considered it. It turns out I had
been using an external diff command where I should have been using
textconv all along.

j.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-24 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-22 20:12 combined diff does not detect binary files and ignores -diff attribute Jay Soffian
2011-05-23 13:30 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-05-23 15:17   ` Jay Soffian
2011-05-23 17:07     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-23 18:11     ` Jeff King
2011-05-23 20:15       ` Jeff King
2011-05-23 20:16         ` [PATCH 1/5] combine-diff: split header printing into its own function Jeff King
2011-05-23 20:16         ` [PATCH 2/5] combine-diff: calculate mode_differs earlier Jeff King
2011-05-23 20:27         ` [PATCH 3/5] combine-diff: handle binary files as binary Jeff King
2011-05-23 23:02           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-23 23:50             ` Jeff King
2011-05-30  6:33           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-30 14:36             ` Jeff King
2011-05-30 16:19               ` Jeff King
2011-05-30 19:32                 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-31 22:42               ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-23 20:30         ` [PATCH 4/5] refactor get_textconv to not require diff_filespec Jeff King
2011-05-23 20:31         ` [PATCH 5/5] combine-diff: respect textconv attributes Jeff King
2011-05-23 22:47           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-23 23:39             ` Jeff King
2011-05-24 16:20           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-24 18:52             ` Jeff King
2011-05-23 22:55         ` combined diff does not detect binary files and ignores -diff attribute Jay Soffian
2011-05-23 23:31           ` Jay Soffian
2011-05-23 23:49             ` Jeff King
2011-05-24  0:59               ` Jay Soffian
2011-05-23 23:41           ` Jeff King
2011-05-24  4:46             ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-24  7:19               ` Michael J Gruber
2011-05-24 15:36                 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-24 16:38                   ` Michael J Gruber
2011-05-24 16:43                     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-24 16:52                     ` Jay Soffian
2011-05-24 19:13                 ` Jeff King
2011-05-25  7:38                   ` Michael J Gruber
2011-05-25 15:29                     ` Jeff King
2011-05-24 14:40               ` Jay Soffian [this message]

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