On 2012-10-24 20:33, Peter Oberndorfer wrote: > Hi, > > i am using a textconv filter to display .doc files as plain text. > It seems git gui does not use this textconv filter for displaying new unstaged files > (other files? = _O) > It seems diff.tcl start_show_diff calls show_other_diff because of this. > This manually loads the file and does not care about textconv filters. > > Is this manual loading really necessary or can't we just ask git? > If it is can it be modified to use the textconv filter? > Does anybody have a idea which git command would output the diff of a untracked file against /dev/null? So I can show the textconved version of the file in git gui. (and not reinvent the code to apply textconv already in git) Thanks, Greetings Peter > > .gitattributes: > *.doc diff=astextplain > > gitconfig: > [diff "astextplain"] > textconv = astextplain -- 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