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Re: Is the textconv filter called for each line ? or once for the file ?

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
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Jun 20, 2012, 12:17 UTC
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Laurent Alebarde <l.alebarde@free.fr> writes:
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> Hi all,
>
> Something I need clarification please :
>
> In the documentation on gitattributes, it is said :
>
> "A textconv, by comparison, is much more limiting. You provide a transformation
> of the data into a line-oriented text format, and git uses its regular diff 
> tools to generate the output."
>
> Does it mean that the textconv filter is called for each line ?

No. What would "for each line" mean, since textconv is essentially meant to be called on binary files?

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