From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:04:08 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704241802420.6954@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0704240858w6121430fj624582539f14ceee@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:

> 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