From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:45:35 GMT
Subject: Re: textconv not invoked when viewing merge commit
Message-ID: <7v7havckgg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpq62qg3sxy.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

>> 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?