On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 09:18:56AM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:

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> For the most part gitk's focus is on showing history and changes in
> a human readable form. For this reason, it makes sense to generate
> the patch text in the diff view using --textconv so that textconv drivers
> are used if they are defined.
> 
> gitk can also generate patches, but we do not use --textconv because
> such patches could not be applied.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>

As the original author of the textconv code, I am in favor of this. So
much so that I even posted basically the same patch before:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/102523

I had trouble finding much discussion in the archive, but I think it may
not have been taken because we were in release freeze (and textconv was
a brand new feature in the release at the time).

-Peff
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