Re: [BUG?] iconv used as textconv, and spurious ^M on added lines on Windows

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On 2017-03-31 21:44, Jakub Narębski wrote:
> W dniu 31.03.2017 o 14:38, Torsten Bögershausen pisze:
>> On 30.03.17 21:35, Jakub Narębski wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Recently I had to work on a project which uses legacy 8-bit encoding
>>> (namely cp1250 encoding) instead of utf-8 for text files (LaTeX
>>> documents).  My terminal, that is Git Bash from Git for Windows is set
>>> up for utf-8.
>>>
>>> I wanted for "git diff" and friends to return something sane on said
>>> utf-8 terminal, instead of mojibake.  There is 'encoding'
>>> gitattribute... but it works only for GUI ('git gui', that is).
>>>
>>> Therefore I have (ab)used textconv facility to convert from cp1250 of
>>> file encoding to utf-8 encoding of console.
>>>
>>> I have set the following in .gitattributes file:
>>>
>>>   ## LaTeX documents in cp1250 encoding
>>>   *.tex text diff=mylatex
>>>
>>> The 'mylatex' driver is defined as:
>>>
>>>   [diff "mylatex"]
>>>         xfuncname = "^(\\\\((sub)*section|chapter|part)\\*{0,1}\\{.*)$"
>>>         wordRegex = "\\\\[a-zA-Z]+|[{}]|\\\\.|[^\\{}[:space:]]+"
>>>         textconv  = \"C:/Program Files/Git/usr/bin/iconv.exe\" -f cp1250 -t utf-8
>>>         cachetextconv = true
>>>
>>> And everything would be all right... if not the fact that Git appends
>>> spurious ^M to added lines in the `git diff` output.  Files use CRLF
>>> end-of-line convention (the native MS Windows one).
>>>
>>>   $ git diff test.tex
>>>   diff --git a/test.tex b/test.tex
>>>   index 029646e..250ab16 100644
>>>   --- a/test.tex
>>>   +++ b/test.tex
>>>   @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>>>   -\documentclass{article}
>>>   +\documentclass{mwart}^M
>>>   
>>>    \usepackage[cp1250]{inputenc}
>>>    \usepackage{polski}
>>>
>>> What gives?  Why there is this ^M tacked on the end of added lines,
>>> while it is not present in deleted lines, nor in content lines?
>>>
>>> Puzzled.
>>>
>>> P.S. Git has `i18n.commitEncoding` and `i18n.logOutputEncoding`; pity
>>> that it doesn't supports in core `encoding` attribute together with
>>> having `i18n.outputEncoding`.
>>
>> Is there a chance to give us a receipt how to reproduce it?
>> A complete test script or ?
>> (I don't want to speculate, if the invocation of iconv is the problem,
>>  where stdout is not in "binary mode", or however this is called under Windows)
> 
> I'm sorry, I though I posted whole recipe, but I missed some details
> in the above description of the case.
> 
> First, files are stored on filesystem using CRLF eol (DOS end-of-line
> convention).  Due to `core.autocrlf` they are converted to LF in blobs,
> that is in the index and in the repository.
> 
> Second, a textconv with filter preserving end-of-line needs to be
> configured.  I have used `iconv`, but I suspect that the problem would
> happen also for `cat`.
> 
> In the .gitattributes file, or .git/info/attributes add, for example:
> 
>   *.tex text diff=myconv
> 
> In the .git/config configure the textconv filter, for example:
> 
>   [diff "myconv"]
>          textconv  = iconv.exe -f cp1250 -t utf-8
> 
> Create a file which filename matches the attribute line, and which
> uses CRLF end of line convention, and add it to Git (adding it to
> the index):
> 
>   $ printf "foo\r\n" >foo.tex
>   $ git add foo.tex
> 
> Modify file (also with CRLF):
> 
>   $ printf "bar\r\n" >foo.tex
> 
> Check the difference
> 
>   $ git diff foo.tex
> 
> HTH
> 

There seems to be a bug in Git, when it comes to "git diff".
Before we feed the content of the working tree into the
diff machinery, a call to convert_to_git() should be made.
But it seems as there is something missing, the expected
"+fox" becomes a "+foxQ"

#!/bin/sh

test_description='CRLF with diff filter'

. ./test-lib.sh

test_expect_success 'setup' '
	git config core.autocrlf input &&
	printf "foo\r\n" >foo.tex &&
  git add foo.tex &&
	echo >.gitattributes &&
	git checkout -b master &&
	git add .gitattributes &&
	git commit -m "Add foo.txt" &&
	cat >.git/config <<-\EOF
	[diff "myconv"]
	       textconv  = sed -e "s/f/g"
EOF
'

test_expect_success 'check EOL in diff' '
	printf "fox\r\n" >foo.tex &&
	cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
diff --git a/foo.tex b/foo.tex
index 257cc56..88c2893 100644
--- a/foo.tex
+++ b/foo.tex
@@ -1 +1 @@
-foo
+fox
EOF
	git diff foo.tex | tr "\015" Q >actual &&
	test_cmp expect actual
'

test_done




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