Re: [PATCH] git-gui: use textconv filter for diff and blame

Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] writes:

Pat Thoyts [off-list ref] writes:

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This looks generally fine but can you suggest some test that I can use
to ensure it is actually doing something. I tried committing some test
files containing cyrillic characters but I see no difference between
using an unpatched git-gui and your patched version with git 1.7.2

textconv has not much to do with encoding. It's a way to tell git the
name of a command that converts a file into plain text. Typical usages
would be to use odt2txt, catdoc/antiword, or meta-information
extraction (like exiftags).

Have a look here:

 https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Textconv

OK thanks. This works very nicely once configured. I've applied it and
pushed this plus some outstanding git-gui patches from msysgit to the
git-gui repository at git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git