Re: [PATCH 2/4] cat-file: introduce the --filters option

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 19, 2016, 15:00 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1608191656080.4924@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <20160819085700.GA23254@tb-raspi>

Hi Torsten,

On Fri, 19 Aug 2016, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 02:46:17PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > +--filters::
> > +	Show the content as transformed by the filters configured in
>
> Minor comment:
> s/transformed/converted/ ?

Sure.

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> Does it make sense to be more specific here:
> The order of conversion is
> - ident
> - CRLF
> - smudge

I do not think it makes sense to complexify the documentation in that manner. The filters should always be applied in the same order, methinks, and it would only clutter the man page to repeat that order here.

Ciao, Dscho

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