On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 04:17:52PM +0200, Florian Aspart wrote: > 2015-06-18 16:11 GMT+02:00 John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 03:51:25PM +0200, Florian Aspart wrote: > >> 2015-06-18 15:26 GMT+02:00 John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> > [Please don't top-post on this list.] > >> > > >> > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 03:15:38PM +0200, Florian Aspart wrote: > >> >> 2015-06-18 14:31 GMT+02:00 Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> >> > Florian Aspart venit, vidit, dixit 16.06.2015 16:11: > >> >> >> I created a clean filter to apply on some files before commiting them. > >> >> >> The filter works correctly when I commit the file and is also applied > >> >> >> when I usethe iff command line tool. > >> >> >> However, when using difftool with meld, the filter is not applied and > >> >> >> the different versions of the files are compared without any > >> >> >> filtering. > >> >> >> > >> >> >> Is there a way to apply the clean/smudge filters when comparing the > >> >> >> working copy of a file to the HEAD version in a gui diff tool? > >> >> >> > >> >> >> I'm using git version 2.4.3 under Ubuntu. > > > > I also realised that the code for file diff is very different from > > directory diff do you see any difference between git-difftool acting on > > files and with the `--dir-diff` option? > > No, even with the --dir-diff option, the filter is still not applied. I have tried to reproduce this and it works as expected for me (i.e. the filter is applied) both for file diff and directory diff mode: $ git config filter.quote.clean "sed -e 's/^> //'" $ git config filter.quote.smudge "sed -e '/^> /n; s/^/> /'" $ git config filter.quote.required true $ echo '*.quote filter=quote' >>.gitattributes $ cat >1.quote <<EOF one two three EOF $ git add .gitattributes 1.quote $ git commit -m 'Initial commit' $ echo four >>1.quote Now `git-difftool` shows the differences with the filter applied. This can be seen running with GIT_TRACE: $ GIT_TRACE=2 git difftool 15:26:59.211541 git.c:557 trace: exec: 'git-difftool' 15:26:59.211674 run-command.c:347 trace: run_command: 'git-difftool' 15:26:59.338617 git.c:348 trace: built-in: git 'config' '--bool' '--get' 'difftool.trustExitCode' 15:26:59.342664 git.c:348 trace: built-in: git 'diff' 15:26:59.344857 run-command.c:347 trace: run_command: 'sed -e '\''s/^> //'\''' 15:26:59.345383 run-command.c:195 trace: exec: '/bin/sh' '-c' 'sed -e '\''s/^> //'\''' 'sed -e '\''s/^> //'\''' 15:26:59.351077 run-command.c:347 trace: run_command: 'sed -e '\''/^> /n; s/^/> /'\''' 15:26:59.351605 run-command.c:195 trace: exec: '/bin/sh' '-c' 'sed -e '\''/^> /n; s/^/> /'\''' 'sed -e '\''/^> /n; s/^/> /'\''' 15:26:59.355716 run-command.c:347 trace: run_command: 'git-difftool--helper' '1.quote' '/tmp/SUEySx_1.quote' '4cb29ea38f70d7c61b2a3a25b02e3bdf44905402' '100644' '1.quote' '0000000000000000000000000000000000000000' '100644' 15:26:59.356191 run-command.c:195 trace: exec: 'git-difftool--helper' '1.quote' '/tmp/SUEySx_1.quote' '4cb29ea38f70d7c61b2a3a25b02e3bdf44905402' '100644' '1.quote' '0000000000000000000000000000000000000000' '100644' 15:26:59.370468 git.c:348 trace: built-in: git 'config' 'diff.tool' 15:26:59.373485 git.c:348 trace: built-in: git 'config' 'merge.tool' 15:26:59.378402 git.c:348 trace: built-in: git 'config' 'difftool.vimdiff.cmd' 15:26:59.381424 git.c:348 trace: built-in: git 'config' 'mergetool.vimdiff.cmd' 15:26:59.386623 git.c:348 trace: built-in: git 'config' '--bool' 'mergetool.prompt' 15:26:59.390198 git.c:348 trace: built-in: git 'config' '--bool' 'difftool.prompt' I think the first run_command of `sed` is cleaning the working tree file to figure out *if* it differs, then the second `sed` is smudging the version in the index so that difftool can use it. -- 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