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Re: Weirdness with git change detection

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jul 11, 2017, 07:34 UTC
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On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 12:31:25AM -0700, Peter Eckersley wrote:
> I did try to test that hypothesis by editing the filter to be a no-op,
> but it's possible I go that wrong. My apologies for bugging the list!

No problem. I actually think it would be interesting if Git could somehow detect and warn about this situation. But the obvious way to do that would be to re-run the clean filter directly after checkout. And doing that all the time is expensive.

Perhaps some kind of "lint" program would be interesting to warn of possible misconfigurations. Of course people would have to run it for it to be useful. :)

-Peff
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