Re: PostScript files: textconv and "git add -p"

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Jan 9, 2011, 18:55 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqr5clsy8g.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20110105051807.GB5884@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> you can get what you want with:
>
>   echo '*.ps diff=ps' >.gitattributes
>   git config diff.ps.textconv ps2ascii
>   git config diff.ps.binary true

Yes, this works great. Thanks.

Did I miss something, or is this undocumented? I can't find that in either man gitattributes or man git-config.

> PS Your question made me very happy. I implemented "diff.*.binary" the
>    way I did out of a vague sense of orthogonality, but I never quite
>    came up with a concrete example where it was useful to set both.
>    Thanks for providing one. :)

I vaguely remember such discussions, and may well have thought "hmm, yet another overkill stuff that nobody'll ever use" at that time ;-).

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Matthieu Moy
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