From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:57:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Integrating with hooks
Message-ID: <473BFBF6.7070902@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <20071115011837.GD32746@penguin.codegnome.org>

Todd A. Jacobs schrieb:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:07:29AM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
>> Take a look at gitattributes(5), namely 'filter' attribute.
> 
> Thanks, I took a look at the man page you suggested. The "ident" feature
> almost does what I want, but doesn't seem to take any sort of format
> string. So, I thought I'd explore "filter," but can't really find any
> examples of how to implement the smudge and clean commands, which seem
> to be what I'm really trying to do here.

A clean and smudge filter processes one file at a time. It reads the old 
content from stdin and writes the result to stdout.

There is a tiny example in the test suite, t/t0021-conversion.sh, look for 
rot13.sh.

-- Hannes