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Re: [PATCH] gitk: use --textconv to generate diff text

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Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
May 11, 2009, 07:34 UTC
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Johannes Sixt schrieb:
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> From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:03:54 +0200
> 
> For the most part gitk's focus is on showing history and changes in
> a human readable form. For this reason, it makes sense to generate
> the patch text in the diff view using --textconv so that textconv drivers
> are used if they are defined.

FWIW, I keep a few Word documents in git and use catdoc as textconv driver. This works pretty well. Git-gui doesn't show any textual changes (it treats the Word files as binary, and it has to), with this patch I can use gitk to preview the changes in the worktree and the index.

-- Hannes
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