On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 04:08:51PM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote: > When a command is supposed to use textconv filters (by default or with > "--textconv") and none are configured then the blob is output without > conversion; the only exception to this rule is "cat-file --textconv". > > Make it behave like the rest of textconv aware commands. Makes sense. > - if (!textconv_object(obj_context.path, obj_context.mode, sha1, 1, &buf, &size)) > - die("git cat-file --textconv: unable to run textconv on %s", > - obj_name); > - break; > + if (textconv_object(obj_context.path, obj_context.mode, sha1, 1, &buf, &size)) > + break; The implication here is that textconv_object should be handling its own errors and dying, and the return is always "yes, I converted" or "no, I did not". Which I think is the case. > + > + /* otherwise expect a blob */ > + exp_type = "blob"; > > case 0: > if (type_from_string(exp_type) == OBJ_BLOB) { I wondered at first why we needed to set exp_type here; shouldn't we already be expecting a blob if we are doing textconv? But then I see this is really about the fall-through in the switch (which we might want an explicit comment for). Which made me wonder: what happens with: git cat-file --textconv HEAD It looks like we die just before textconv-ing, because we have no obj_context.path. But that is also unlike all of the other --textconv switches, which mean "turn on textconv if you are showing a blob that supports it" and not "the specific operation is --textconv, apply it to this blob". I don't know if that is worth changing or not. -Peff -- 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