Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 20.04.2013 06:06: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 06:44:45PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote: > >> Currently, "diff" and "cat-file" for blobs obey "--textconv" options >> (with the former defaulting to "--textconv" and the latter to >> "--no-textconv") whereas "show" does not obey this option, even though >> it takes diff options. >> >> Make "show" on blobs behave like "diff", i.e. obey "--textconv" by >> default and "--no-textconv" when given. > > Wait, this does the opposite of the last patch. If we do want to do > this, shouldn't the last one have been an "expect_failure"? The last patch just documents the status quo, which is not a bug per se. Therefore, no failure, but change in the definition of "success". > I'm not convinced this is the right thing to do, though. It would break: > > git show HEAD:file.c >file.c > > Admittedly, such people should be using "checkout" or "cat-file", so I > do not mind too much breaking them if there is a good reason. But I am > not sure what that reason is. My reasoning is twofold: - consistency between "git show commit" and "git show blob" - "git show" is a user facing command, and as such should produce output consumable by humans; whereas "git cat-file" is plumbing and should produce raw data unless told otherwise (-p, --textconv). (Sorry for the repeat.) Michael -- 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