Re: [PATCH 2/2] diff: add a special SYMLINK user-diff driver

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

So I wonder if the problem really is not in the userdiff code at all,
and we should be disabling gitattribute lookup entirely for non-regular
files.

Actually, I'd also say that what needs to be changed is on the
.gitattributes side, not on the .gitconfig side.

Another option would be zsh-style globbing, like:

# any symbolic link
*(@) diff=link

# Symbolic links named *.pdf
*.pdf(@)

(except that * means "all" to zsh, and should mean "regular" to Git).

But OTOH, that's a lot of work to implement, for very little benefit.

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Matthieu Moy
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