Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/4] show: obey --textconv for blobs

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 7, 2013, 09:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20130207094314.GC16832@sigio.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <51137522.3010005@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 10:34:26AM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote:

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> > Just as we record the path from the surrounding tree, we record the
> > mode. It's that mode which gets put into the pending object list by the
> > revision parser (see the very end of handle_revision_arg). Storing an
> > object_context instead of the mode would be a strict superset of what we
> > store now (right now we just throw the rest away).
> 
> Sure. But why does object_context have a mode member at all? Maybe it is
> not alway used together with another struct which has the mode already,
> then that's a reason.

Exactly. It's purely for pulling information out of get_sha1_with_context, and does not know that you are going to put its output into an object_array_entry (and many call sites do not).

-Peff