Adding to that: Somehow I still feel I should introduce a new attribute "show" (or a better name) similar to "diff" so that you can specifiy a diff driver to use for showing a blob (or grepping it), which may or may not be the same you use for "diff". This would be a much more fine-grained and systematic way of setting a default for "--textconv" for blobs. Of course, some driver attributes would just not matter for coverting blobs, but that doesn't hurt. I'm just wondering whether it's worth the effort and whether I should distinguish between "show" and grep". So, the sructure would be: "--textconv" is on by default for diff, show, grep. diff looks for a textconv driver using the "diff" attribute. show/grep look for a textconv driver using the "show" attribute. That way, turning on "--textconv" by default does not affect anyone unless a user specifies the new attribute! Also, all commands would behave "the same way" if you have both a diff and a show attribute set on the same files.. 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