From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:49:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/4] show: obey --textconv for blobs
Message-ID: <7vr4kt9f53.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130206221240.GC27507@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> And stating it that way makes it clear that there may be other missing
> steps (3 and up) to apply other gitattributes. For example, should "git
> show $blob" respect crlf attributes? Smudge filters?

Yeah, I think applying these when path is availble may make sense.

Are we going to teach cat-file to honor them with "--textconv" and
possibly other new options?

Or should the "--textconv" imply application of these other filters?
I am tempted to say yes, but I haven't thought things through...