From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:37:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/2] pathattr: allow piping to external program.
Message-ID: <7vodnduwx3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vzm6xux9o.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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

> This sets up capability for various traits to be an external
> process, accessed via pipe.  conv-i and conv-o need to spawn
> bidirectional pipe, but I have not coded that part yet.
>
> You can try running:
>
>     $ git show HEAD:Documentation/*.txt

... obviously I meant

	$ git show HEAD:Documentation/git.txt

or something a bit more concrete than '*' here.

>
> with:
>
>     [pathattr "kludge"]
>         path = Documentation/*.txt
>         pretty = "pipe sed -e 's/^/>> /'"
>
> to see what it does.
>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>