From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:23:49 GMT
Subject: Re: diff attribute ignored by show and log -p
Message-ID: <76718490912162123r49f9bd90n8e032c144d0cdbac@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <76718490912162046k36e2a275gaf7672b38c7a63e4@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
> % cat .git/info/attributes
> *.xib diff=xibdiff
> % cat $(git config diff.xibdiff.command)
> #!/bin/sh
> trap "rm -f \"$2.tmp\" \"$5.tmp\"" 0 1 2 3 15
> ibtool --all "$2" > "$2".tmp
> ibtool --all "$5" > "$5".tmp
> colordiff -u "$2.tmp" "$5.tmp"
>
> Works great for things like:
>
> % git diff <commit1> <commit2> -- /path/to/*.xib
>
> But is apparently ignored by "git log -p" and "git show" which just
> use internal diff. Is this behavior intentional?

Ah, --ext-diff, and the reasoning behind requiring it for log/show is
explained in 72909be.

j.