From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:03:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] diff/xdiff: refactor EOF-EOL detection
Message-ID: <20100606220304.GC6993@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vpr060ys0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 11:38:39PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> It can be done by defining a custom textconv filter that adds a trailing
> LF to a blob that ends in an incomplete line, and what your patch 3/4 does
> is essentially to create such a built-in textconv filter and *force* users
> to use it unconditionally for all paths unless the user explicitly asks
> not to use *any* textconv.

Side note: it would be kind of cool to have .gitattributes selectable on
file mode, so you could implement this feature entirely as a textconv on
symlinks.  And then you could pretty-print them however you liked.

That may be going overboard, though.

-Peff