From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 22:55:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Using clean/smudge filters with difftool
Message-ID: <xmqqr3p8bp8l.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150618223927.GP18226@serenity.lan>

John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> writes:

> I think the summary is that there are some scenarios where the external
> diff tool should see the smudged version and others where the clean
> version is more appropriate and Git should support both options.  It
> seems this is a property of the filter, so I wonder if the best solution
> is a new "filter.<name>.extdiff = [clean|smudge]" configuration
> variable (there's probably a better name for the variable than
> "extdiff").

Not just the external diff, but the textconv filter obeys the same
rule.  The setting should be done the same way for both, if we are
going to go in that direction.