From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:17:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG, PATCH 0/3] Fix {blame,cat-file} --textconv for cases with symlinks
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In-Reply-To: <vpq8w2yt8hc.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

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

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> That said, if you changed a symlink from pointing at A to pointing at B,
>> it does run the textual diff between the string we get from readlink(3).
>
> Yes, and my question was to make sure we don't run the textconv filter
> on these strings.
>
> I've just checked, and from my little tests, git diff doesn't try to
> textconv the pathnames, it runs the textual diff without textconv,
> which is the expected behavior.

Ok, then I think it makes sense to make sure we don't run the textconv
filter on them.