From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:03:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cvsserver: Make always-binary mode a config file option
Message-ID: <7vhct5rztc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vr6s9th4f.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

> we should make two kinds of configuration.  Classification of
> paths is property of the project and does not depend on where
> the user uses the paths from the project:
> ...
> while how they are handled can be platform dependent.  On UNIX,
> you might have this in $HOME/.gitconfig:
>
> 	[handler "a/v"]
>         	pretty = "cmd xine %s" ; nb. there is no 'cmd' yet...
> 	[handler "text"]
> 		pretty = "pipe fmt -"
>
> while on another system, you might have:
>
> 	[handler "a/v"]
>         	pretty = "cmd mediaplayer %s"
> 	[handler "text"]
>                 conv_i = crlf
>                 conv_o = crlf

Once we separate out the handler section, we can introduce more
useful variables in it (not the "pretty", whose sole purpose was
to have fun and serve as a demonstration).  Obvious ones are:

	; takes temporary files old, mine, his and writes the
        ; result in another
	merge = "cmd external-merge-command %s %s %s %s"

	; takes two temporary files
        diff = "cmd external-diff-command %s %s"