Re: [BUG, PATCH 0/3] Fix {blame,cat-file} --textconv for cases with symlinks

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 21, 2010, 17:57 UTC
Message-ID: <7vaanbuggr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100920180046.GA1790@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> The one thing this does not enable is using a special diff driver on the
> _pathnames_ of symlinks. Since these are by-definition text, I don't
> know why anyone would want to do that. But it is an orthogonal problem,
> anyway.  We would need some way in the .gitattributes or the .gitconfig
> to say "this is the diff driver to use not based on pathname matching,
> but based on the file's mode". E.g., a special "SYMLINK" diff driver
> like:
>
>   [diff "SYMLINK"]
>     textconv = pointless-munge
>
> But again, I have no idea why anyone would want such a feature, so it is
> not worth thinking too hard about it.

I agree with you; pointless-munge would just be 'printf "%s\n"' ;-)