Re: [PATCH 2/2] diff: add a special SYMLINK user-diff driver

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Sep 22, 2010, 05:53 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqpqw6coia.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20100921211303.GB1188@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> So I wonder if the problem really is not in the userdiff code at all,
> and we should be disabling gitattribute lookup entirely for non-regular
> files.

Actually, I'd also say that what needs to be changed is on the .gitattributes side, not on the .gitconfig side.

Another option would be zsh-style globbing, like:

# any symbolic link *(@) diff=link

# Symbolic links named *.pdf *.pdf(@)

(except that * means "all" to zsh, and should mean "regular" to Git).

But OTOH, that's a lot of work to implement, for very little benefit.

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

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