From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:50:03 GMT
Subject: Re: gitattributes - clean filter invoked on pull?
Message-ID: <20110411095001.GG28959@kytes>
In-Reply-To: <20110411093114.GY5146@genesis.frugalware.org>

Hi Miklos,

Miklos Vajna writes:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 02:49:21PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Is this a bug? I don't exactly understand why this would be necessary.
> > 
> > From config.txt:
> > - 'clean' is "The command which is used to convert the content of a
> > worktree file to a blob upon checkin".
> > - 'smudge' is "The command which is used to convert the content of a
> > blob object to a worktree file upon checkout."
> > 
> > According to the documentation, 'smudge' is *supposed* to be invoked
> > on a clone/ pull, since it involves a checkout.  I don't see how you
> > can avoid running these filters on every checkin/ checkout unless you
> > cache the result somewhere.
> 
> That's not a problem - the issue I pointed out is that the 'clean' one
> is invoked on pull/clone, and it takes time if it's applied to several
> files.
> 
> 'smudge' is just a 'cat', I don't care about it. :)

Ah, sorry about that.  There actually seems to be a bug :|

-- Ram