From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 07:34:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: use --textconv to generate diff text
Message-ID: <4A07D51A.4090409@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <4A07D160.9020709@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt schrieb:
> 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