On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 12:12 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi again, > > Drew Northup wrote: > > > That still doesn't fix the crlf issue, for starters. Also, I would like > > to be able to email patches for files that are in UTF-16 and properly > > re-import them. Unless I'm missing something really big there's not much > > that a display filter is going to do for me there. > > Right, I think you're missing something big. textconv is a display > filter. clean/smudge convert between internal and external > representation (and your clean/smudge scripts could take care of CRLF > themselves if desired). > > That said, I wouldn't be surprised if clean/smudge filters don't do > everything you want. If you do go that way, please keep the list > posted so the mechanism can be improved. Well I shall plumb the documentation again.... just in case. I'm not holding my breath that it will do what I (and frankly a fair number of other people) want. We just want version control that treats text like text. FULL STOP. Why isn't UTF-16 text??????? > And longer term, maybe people will want something tailor-made after > all? I just imagine it would be more productive to try out the > generic mechanisms first. Please forgive me for being offended that UTF-16 text is not "generic" enough. -- -Drew Northup N1XIM AKA RvnPhnx on OPN ________________________________________________ "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- 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