Re: [PATCH 0/4] diff text conversion filter

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Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Does the series in any way change whether plumbing and porcelain invoke
> the external diff drivers? I have this particular use-case, which I'd like
> that still works:
>
> - In .git/info/attributes I have specified a diff driver:
>
>     *.doc   diff=docdiff
>
>   The driver runs a script that literally loads the two version of the
>   file into MS Word and uses Word's diffing capability.
>
> - git-gui should not use the diff driver. That is, plumbing should bypass
>   the diff driver and say "Binary files differ". [*]

Actually, I understand you don't want git gui and gitk to load MS-Word
anytime you click something, but I'd love to see the textconv+diff in
gitk.

(yeah, that's pretty hard to specify right, the ideal requirement
seems to be "in a gui, use the good part of the diff driver, but not
the other" :-\).

-- 
Matthieu
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