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Re: textconv not invoked when viewing merge commit

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 15, 2011, 20:45 UTC
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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
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>> I can't think of a case where it matters, though, so maybe it is just
>> paranoia.
>
> A line-counting, statistics tool would think that 1 line has been
> removed from both branches, and one new added by the merge.
>
> Well, I know no tool parsing combined diff actually, so it's indeed a
> hypothetical case.

And the ones that have been parsing cdiff wouldn't have done anything good before this change on such a binary blob anyway, no?

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  1. Peter OberndorferApr 11, 2011
  2. Michael J GruberApr 12, 2011
  3. Jeff KingApr 14, 2011
  4. Jeff KingApr 14, 2011
  5. Junio C HamanoApr 14, 2011
  6. Jeff KingApr 14, 2011
  7. Michael J GruberApr 14, 2011
  8. Junio C HamanoApr 14, 2011
  9. Junio C HamanoApr 14, 2011
  10. Jeff KingApr 14, 2011
  11. Junio C HamanoApr 14, 2011
  12. Jeff KingApr 14, 2011
  13. combine-diff: use textconv for combined diff formatMichael J Gruber, Apr 15, 2011
  14. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2011
  15. Michael J GruberApr 16, 2011
  16. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2011
  17. Jakub NarebskiApr 16, 2011
  18. Jeff KingApr 15, 2011
  19. Peter OberndorferApr 21, 2011
  20. Matthieu MoyApr 15, 2011
  21. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2011
  22. Jeff KingApr 16, 2011
  23. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2011
  24. Jeff KingApr 16, 2011
  25. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2011

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