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Re: [PATCH] grep -I: do not bother to read known-binary files

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
May 14, 2014, 19:44 UTC
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<20140514194442.GD2715@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:52:28AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> I do not think checking 'text' is the right way to do this.  The
> attribute controls the eof normalization, and people sometimes want
> to keep CRLF terminated files in the repository no matter what the
> platform is (an example I heard is a sample protocol exchange over
> textual network protocol such as HTTP and SMTP), and the way to do
> so is to unset it.  That would still let them look for patterns in
> and compare the changes to these paths.
> 
> Looking for "Marking files as binary" in gitattributes(5) gives us a
> more authoritative alternative, I think.  In short:
> 
>  - If 'diff' is Unset, or
>  - If 'diff' is Set to X and diff.X.binary is true
>
> then the contents are not suitable for human consumption.

I responded elsewhere in the thread that I think the patch under discussion is redundant at this point, but just to clarify: grep currently uses the rules you give above, as it builds on the userdiff driver code.

-Peff
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