From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:23:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Giving command line parameter to textconv command?
Message-ID: <7vy6l4179h.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091215170321.GB21322@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> [1] The current textconv interface is really nice for things like just
> using "antiword" out of the box. But I wrote a new interface which can
> be much faster: it calls the textconv filter with the blob name, and
> then the filter is responsible for using cat-file to get at the blob.
> This means the filter can look at only part of a blob (e.g., if we are
> interested in the metadata tags at the beginning of a large media file),
> and it can cache answers as it sees fit, avoiding access to the blob
> entirely.
>
> I need to polish the code a bit and submit it. Obviously this is not
> meant to replace the existing textconv, but rather to supplement it, for
> when "fast and inconvenient" is better than "slow and simple". What is
> the best way to configure this? I can imagine "diff.*.textconvType =
> fast", or also "diff.*.fastTextconv".

"diff.*.blobfilter"?