From: Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 21:02:27 GMT
Subject: Re: proposal for extending smudge/clean filters with raw file access
Message-ID: <20160512210227.GA10786@kitenet.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqvb2jf6dg.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> The smudge happens to be the last to run, so it is quite true that
> it can say "Hey Git, I've written it out already".
> 
> I didn't check all codepaths to ensure that we won't need the
> smudged result in core at all, but I am guessing you did so before
> making this proposal, so in that case I would say this sounds fine.

Well, the idea is to only use smudge-to-file when the smudged content is
going to be written out to a file. Any other code paths that need to
smudge some content would use the smudge filter.

So, try_create_file would use it. Maybe some other places I have not
found yet could as well.

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