From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] remarks about custom diff driver
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 06:45:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070827104529.GA25685@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpq8x7x5knh.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:36:34PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Indeed, what I would have needed is a custum text converter. In my
> case, I would have said something like
>
> [...]
>
> Any opinion? Do you think that's overkill? Anyone else have a
> particuliar experience with custom diff engine?
Interestingly enough, I tried using a custom diff for the first time
earlier today and came to the exact same conclusion (I was diff'ing
photos that were tagged with exif keywords). I suspect a large number of
diff engines will simply want to convert content into a canonical text
format.
I wonder if you could simply use a "diff-filter" attribute that would
clean and smudge in the same way as "filter", except it would only do so
when creating or applying diffs. In most cases, you wouldn't have a
"clean" component (since the conversion to text is lossy).
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-27 10:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-27 10:36 [RFC] remarks about custom diff driver Matthieu Moy
2007-08-27 10:45 ` Jeff King [this message]
2007-08-27 23:29 ` [RFC][PATCH] " Matthieu Moy
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