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Re: Interaction between clean/smudge and git status

From
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
Apr 14, 2008, 06:48 UTC
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Sergio Callegari schrieb:
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> I have tried for the first time the .gitattributes filter option, setting a
> clean and a smudge filter for a certain type of files.
> 
> What makes me wonder is that using filters, after a clean checkout git status
> says that everything is changed.
...
> Is this the expected behaviour of the smudge filter?

I've observed this, too, and I don't think it is expected behavior. But it hasn't annoyed me enough to look at it in depth. Eventually I will, and I hope to find out what's wrong. ;)

-- Hannes
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