From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:56:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-gui: use textconv filter for diff and blame
Message-ID: <vpq8w4tpie2.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <871valstsi.fsf@fox.patthoyts.tk>

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

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/