From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:54:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] show: obey --textconv for blobs
Message-ID: <vpqfvyi7e86.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <1547528401.1826118.1366645060312.JavaMail.root@openwide.fr>

Jeremy Rosen <jeremy.rosen@openwide.fr> writes:

> some features detect if they are piping to a terminal... couldn't we do
> something like that ?

That's OK for convenience features like colors or so, but that would be
really, really unexpected to have

$ git show HEAD:file
foo
$ git show HEAD:file > tmp
$ cat tmp
bar

IMHO.

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