astextplain: restore passthrough for empty files#668
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Our astextplain helper used to pass through empty files and plaintext with the an expected extension. WHen we changed it to work based on mimetype rather than a predefined list of extensions in git-for-windows#624, both those passthroughs got lost. Plaintext passthrough has been restored in git-for-windows#626, but passthrough of empty files is still missing. Restore this functionality. This fixes git-for-windows/git#5977 Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
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The `astextplain` tool (which is used by Git for Windows to generate diffs of `.pdf` and `.doc` files) used to handle empty files gracefully. This behavior is [now reinstated](#668). Signed-off-by: gitforwindowshelper[bot] <gitforwindowshelper-bot@users.noreply.github.com>
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astextplainhelper used to pass through empty files and plaintext with the an expected extension. When we changed it to work based on mimetype rather than a predefined list of extensions in #624, both those passthroughs got lost. Plaintext passthrough has been restored in #626, but passthrough of empty files is still missing. Restore this functionality.This fixes git-for-windows/git#5977