Re: What's cooking in git/spearce.git (Oct 2008, #01; Mon, 06)

Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:59:43AM -0700, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

quoted

* jk/diff-convfilter (Sun Oct 5 17:43:45 2008 -0400) 4 commits
 - diff: add filter for converting binary to text
 - diff: introduce diff.<driver>.binary
 - diff: unify external diff and funcname parsing code
 - t4012: use test_cmp instead of cmp

A general cleanup on how diff drivers are implemented.  Its still
missing documentation updates and tests but doesn't break anything
current as far as I can tell.  It needs more review before it can
be slated for 'next'.

I should note, too, that this is in direct competition with Matthieu
Moy's "Implementation of a textconv filter for easy custom diff" posted
about a week ago. So if you are reviewing this series, please review
both and decide which you think is more sensible.

To be clear, Jeff's series is in pu because it seems reasonable on
the surface and applied cleanly to my master branch.  Matthieu's
branch didn't apply cleanly, and I didn't really have the time to
figure out why and hand fix it.

So my carrying of Jeff's series and not Matthieu's is not an
endorsement one way or the other.  It was simply a matter of trying
to help the topic get exposure with the least amount of effort on
my part.

-- 
Shawn.