Re: What's cooking in git/spearce.git (Oct 2008, #01; Mon, 06)

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 6, 2008, 21:03 UTC
Message-ID: <20081006210303.GA30812@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20081006165943.GG8203@spearce.org>

On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:59:43AM -0700, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> * jk/diff-convfilter (Sun Oct 5 17:43:45 2008 -0400) 4 commits
>  - diff: add filter for converting binary to text
>  - diff: introduce diff.<driver>.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