Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>> git cat-file --textconv <blob-sha1> # Run textconv on blob
>
> This wouldn't work. The textconv is defined by the diff driver, which is
> associated with a pathname,
Right, forget it.
>> git cat-file --textconv <tree-sha1>:<filename> # Run textconv on file
>> # (in object database)
>
> This could work in theory, but will not be as easy to implement as you
> hope.
Actually, Clément has already hit the issue.
> complex as "HEAD@{12:00 yesterday}:foo.c"
_that_ is the actual example I was looking for ;-) (with a : inside
the pathname to make sure you can't search it from the right).
> It would be nice if there was some way in the get_sha1* functions to
> save some context, like tree context and filename. This would be helpful
> for something like "git show HEAD:foo.txt", which probably should be
> respecting autocrlf and smudge/clean filters.
Yup. The code to do the parsing is already there, it "just" needs to
be made available through a clean API.
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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