Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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 -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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