From: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Lars Schneider <lars.schneider@autodesk.com>,
git <git@vger.kernel.org>, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>,
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com, Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/7] convert: add support for different encodings
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 22:05:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180227210517.GA17555@tor.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180226204635.GB12598@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 03:46:35PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 06:35:33PM +0100, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:
>
> > > diff --git a/userdiff.c b/userdiff.c
> > > index dbfb4e13cd..48fa7e8bdd 100644
> > > --- a/userdiff.c
> > > +++ b/userdiff.c
> > > @@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ IPATTERN("css",
> > > "-?[_a-zA-Z][-_a-zA-Z0-9]*" /* identifiers */
> > > "|-?[0-9]+|\\#[0-9a-fA-F]+" /* numbers */
> > > ),
> > > +{ "utf16", NULL, -1, { NULL, 0 }, NULL, "iconv:utf16" },
> > > { "default", NULL, -1, { NULL, 0 } },
> > > };
> > > #undef PATTERNS
> >
> > The patch looks like a possible step into the right direction -
> > some minor notes: "utf8" is better written as "UTF-8", when talking
> > to iconv.h, same for utf16.
> >
> > But, how do I activate the diff ?
> > I have in .gitattributes
> > XXXenglish.txt diff=UTF-16
> >
> > and in .git/config
> > [diff "UTF-16"]
> > command = iconv:UTF-16
> >
> >
> > What am I doing wrong ?
>
> After applying the patch, if I do:
>
> git init
> echo hello | iconv -f utf8 -t utf16 >file
> git add file
> git commit -m one
> echo goodbye | iconv -f utf8 -t utf16 >file
> git add file
> git commit -m two
>
> then:
>
> git log -p
>
> shows "binary files differ" but:
>
> echo "file diff=utf16" >.gitattributes
> git log -p
>
> shows text diffs. I assume you tweaked the patch before switching to
> the UTF-16 spelling in your example. Did you use a plumbing command to
> show the diff? textconv isn't enabled for plumbing, because the
> resulting patches cannot actually be applied (in that sense an encoding
> switch is potentially special, since in theory one could convert to the
> canonical text format, apply the patch, and then convert back).
>
> -Peff
Thanks for helping me out.
I didn't use "git log -p", but a simple "git diff".
(And after re-using utf16 with lowercase, it works as you described it)
I wasn't aware of "git log -p", something learned (or re-learned)
The other question is:
Would this help showing diffs of UTF-16 encoded files on a "git hoster",
github/bitbucket/.... ?
Or would the auto-magic UTF-16 avoid binary patch that I send out be more helpful ?
Or both ?
Or the w-t-e encoding ?
Questions over questions.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-27 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-15 15:27 [PATCH v7 0/7] convert: add support for different encodings lars.schneider
2018-02-15 15:27 ` [PATCH v7 1/7] strbuf: remove unnecessary NUL assignment in xstrdup_tolower() lars.schneider
2018-02-16 12:55 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-02-16 18:45 ` Jeff King
2018-02-16 19:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-15 15:27 ` [PATCH v7 2/7] strbuf: add xstrdup_toupper() lars.schneider
2018-02-15 15:27 ` [PATCH v7 3/7] utf8: add function to detect prohibited UTF-16/32 BOM lars.schneider
2018-02-15 15:27 ` [PATCH v7 4/7] utf8: add function to detect a missing " lars.schneider
2018-02-15 15:27 ` [PATCH v7 5/7] convert: add 'working-tree-encoding' attribute lars.schneider
2018-02-15 15:27 ` [PATCH v7 6/7] convert: add tracing for " lars.schneider
2018-02-15 15:27 ` [PATCH v7 7/7] convert: add round trip check based on 'core.checkRoundtripEncoding' lars.schneider
2018-02-15 20:03 ` [PATCH v7 0/7] convert: add support for different encodings Junio C Hamano
2018-02-15 22:09 ` Jeff King
2018-02-16 18:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-16 19:25 ` Jeff King
2018-02-16 19:27 ` Jeff King
2018-02-16 19:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-21 18:06 ` Lars Schneider
2018-02-16 14:42 ` Lars Schneider
2018-02-16 16:58 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2018-02-22 20:00 ` Lars Schneider
2018-02-22 20:12 ` Jeff King
2018-02-23 16:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-23 20:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-24 15:18 ` Lars Schneider
2018-02-26 1:44 ` Jeff King
2018-02-26 17:35 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2018-02-26 20:46 ` Jeff King
2018-02-27 21:05 ` Torsten Bögershausen [this message]
2018-02-27 21:25 ` Jeff King
2018-02-27 21:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-27 21:58 ` Jeff King
2018-02-27 22:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-27 22:20 ` Jeff King
2018-02-28 8:20 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2018-02-28 13:21 ` Jeff King
2018-02-28 17:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-01 7:49 ` Jeff King
2018-03-04 10:16 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2018-02-28 20:46 ` Lars Schneider
2018-02-16 19:04 ` Junio C Hamano
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