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Re: [BUG] git gui blame fails for multi-word textconv filter

From
Kirill Smelkov <kirr@landau.phys.spbu.ru>
Date
Aug 19, 2010, 08:05 UTC
Message-ID
<20100819080506.GA31474@landau.phys.spbu.ru>
In-Reply-To
<87iq3osm3h.fsf@fox.patthoyts.tk>
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 01:46:29AM +0200, Cl??ment Poulain wrote:
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> Le 04/08/2010 21:25, Kirill Smelkov a ??crit :
> >Hello,
> >
> >I use
> >
> >     [diff "astextplain"]
> >         textconv = run-mailcap --action=cat
> >
> >in my ~/.gitconfig, and this works for git `git blame` because of 41a457
> >in git.git (textconv: use shell to run helper), but fails with git gui:
> >
> >     $ git gui blame 21980.2--ИМС-МР231.doc
> >     Error in startup script: couldn't execute "run-mailcap --action=cat": 
> >     no such file or directory
[...]
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> >If so, I'd better teach cat-file about worktree, instead of teaching
> >git-gui about running textconv filter through shell. Just a wish...
> >   
> This was discussed here: a1ace6b77167a2ad4b4995e8c4d09761@ensimag.fr , 
> and your suggestion was considered ;-)

I see, thanks. Sigh that it is done not that way, but anyway - everybody, thanks for fixing this.

Kirill
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Message 9 of 9 in “[BUG] git gui blame fails for multi-word textconv filter”
  1. Kirill SmelkovAug 4, 2010
  2. Clément PoulainAug 4, 2010
  3. Matthieu MoyAug 5, 2010
  4. git-gui: Use shell to launch textconv filter in "blame"Matthieu Moy, Aug 5, 2010
  5. Pat ThoytsAug 5, 2010
  6. Matthieu MoyAug 6, 2010
  7. Pat ThoytsAug 6, 2010
  8. Pat ThoytsAug 5, 2010
  9. Kirill SmelkovAug 19, 2010

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