From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] grep: stop looking at random places for .gitattributes
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:04:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50766F94.4020104@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50765F34.1070108@viscovery.net>
On 10/11/2012 07:55 AM, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> Am 10/10/2012 21:44, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
>> Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
>>
>>> Is there already an established definition which the "correct"
>>> .gitattributes are?
>>
>> No, and it is deliberately kept vague while waiting for us to come
>> up with a clear definition of what is "correct".
> ...
>> Very often, people
>> retroactively define attributes to correct earlier mistakes.
>
> Absolutely. I have Windows resource files that are Shift-JIS encoded
> checked in long ago, and I want to retoactively declare them with
> "encoding=Shift-JIS" because I prefer to see Japanese script in gitk
> rather than gibberish.
Maybe I'm being too much of a purist, but I don't think that git should
retroactively reinterpret history on its own initiative in a way that
might not be correct (e.g., maybe your encoding changed from ASCII to
Shift-JIS sometime in the past). It would be more appropriate for this
to happen only if explicitly requested by the user. For example, why
don't you override the incorrect historical attributes via
.git/info/attributes?
Michael
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-11 7:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-09 9:03 'git grep needle rev' attempts to access 'rev:.../.gitattributes' in the worktree Johannes Sixt
2012-10-09 9:38 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-09 12:01 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-09 12:41 ` Jeff King
2012-10-09 18:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-10 5:17 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-10 5:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-10 5:45 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-10 11:34 ` Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-10-10 11:34 ` [PATCH 1/3] quote: let caller reset buffer for quote_path_relative() Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-10-10 21:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-11 13:04 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-11 16:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-10 11:34 ` [PATCH 2/3] grep: pass true path name to grep machinery Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-10-10 11:34 ` [PATCH 3/3] grep: stop looking at random places for .gitattributes Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-10-10 11:51 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-10 12:03 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-10 12:12 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-10 12:32 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-10 12:43 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-10 12:51 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-10 19:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-11 5:55 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-11 7:04 ` Michael Haggerty [this message]
2012-10-11 8:17 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-10 13:59 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Re: 'git grep needle rev' attempts to access 'rev:.../.gitattributes' in the worktree Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-10-10 13:59 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] quote: let caller reset buffer for quote_path_relative() Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-10-10 13:59 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] grep: stop looking at random places for .gitattributes Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-10-10 14:21 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-10 19:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-11 5:45 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-11 15:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-12 7:33 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-14 4:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-15 6:02 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-15 16:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-16 6:39 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-17 7:05 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-17 7:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-11 1:49 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-11 3:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-12 10:49 ` [PATCH v3] " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-10-12 16:47 ` Junio C Hamano
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