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Re: [PATCH] git-gui: use textconv filter for diff and blame

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
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Jul 30, 2010, 06:56 UTC
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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
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