Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
- Date
- Apr 24, 2007, 16:04 UTC
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Hi,
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:
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> On 4/23/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote: > > > The earlier example I gave would fit this pattern rather well. > > If somebody (me) cannot deal with UTF-8 encoded Japanese text > > very well, that user personally can mark such a file in > > $GIT_DIR/info/attributes as 'filter=utf8-japanese-text' and > > define the iconv based filtering driver in $GIT_DIR/config in > > the repository that he (me) uses for editing. > > which will be a PITA to setup in each and every clone of the > repository, unless it is cloned with the repo.
Not if you do it with templates. If it is such a special case that you absolutely _need_ filters, and cannot use it without filters, it is probably in a very small group. And there, you just setup the templates, and voila: you have your filters without much ado.
Ciao, Dscho