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textconv not invoked when viewing merge commit

From
Peter Oberndorfer <kumbayo84@arcor.de>
Date
Apr 11, 2011, 17:12 UTC
Message-ID
<201104111912.47547.kumbayo84@arcor.de>
Hi,
i currently use a textconv filter to show contents of a zip like archive in a user readable format(as a list of contained files).

This works fine, except for merge commits. For merge commits i see the diff of the binary contents of the file.

Is this intentional? git help gitattributes mentions no such limitation. Anywhere else(gitk(on non merge commit), git gui blame) i see the the filtered textual representation of the file.

I tried 1.7.4 msysgit and current master
Greetings Peter
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