From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:35:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 7/7] git grep: honor textconv by default
Message-ID: <7vehdzesr9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <5177AE7F.1040400@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> My point is that we apply textconv on "log diff greps" already, so why
> should't we on content greps?

I think you are going in circles.  If you start from "textconv is
about mangling blob contents", then it would look natural to you
that "show <blob>", "diff A B", and "grep <pattern> <blob>" would
all first mangle the blob contents using textconv and then work on
them.

But diff.<driver>.textconv is to mangle blob contents in preparation
for comparing with another.

That is why you explicitly ask "cat-file --textconv" to use the same
mangling even when you are not comparing it with anything else.