From: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:30:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-gui: use textconv filter for diff and blame
Message-ID: <878w4tz2hi.fsf@fox.patthoyts.tk>
In-Reply-To: <vpq8w4tpie2.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

>Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>
>> This looks generally fine but can you suggest some test that I can use
>> to ensure it is actually doing something. I tried committing some test
>> files containing cyrillic characters but I see no difference between
>> using an unpatched git-gui and your patched version with git 1.7.2
>
>textconv has not much to do with encoding. It's a way to tell git the
>name of a command that converts a file into plain text. Typical usages
>would be to use odt2txt, catdoc/antiword, or meta-information
>extraction (like exiftags).
>
>Have a look here:
>
>  https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Textconv
>

OK thanks. This works very nicely once configured. I've applied it and
pushed this plus some outstanding git-gui patches from msysgit to the
git-gui repository at git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git