Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 09:18:56AM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote: > >> For the most part gitk's focus is on showing history and changes in >> a human readable form. For this reason, it makes sense to generate >> the patch text in the diff view using --textconv so that textconv drivers >> are used if they are defined. >> >> gitk can also generate patches, but we do not use --textconv because >> such patches could not be applied. >> >> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> > > As the original author of the textconv code, I am in favor of this. I agree; I think textconv is meant for this kind of usage. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html