Re: git-gui: textconv not used on unstaged files

From: Peter Oberndorfer <kumbayo84@arcor.de>
Date: Nov 26, 2012, 20:28 UTC
Message-ID: <50B3D0D2.6060308@arcor.de>
In-Reply-To: <5088347F.50503@arcor.de>

On 2012-10-24 20:33, Peter Oberndorfer wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> i am using a textconv filter to display .doc files as plain text.
> It seems git gui does not use this textconv filter for displaying new unstaged files
> (other files? = _O)
> It seems diff.tcl start_show_diff calls show_other_diff because of this.
> This manually loads the file and does not care about textconv filters.
>
> Is this manual loading really necessary or can't we just ask git?
> If it is can it be modified to use the textconv filter?
>

Does anybody have a idea which git command would output the diff of a untracked file against /dev/null? So I can show the textconved version of the file in git gui. (and not reinvent the code to apply textconv already in git)

Thanks, Greetings Peter

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> .gitattributes:
> *.doc    diff=astextplain
>
> gitconfig:
> [diff "astextplain"]
>     textconv = astextplain