Re: make git ignore the timestamp embedded in PDFs

From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: May 14, 2013, 19:26 UTC
Message-ID: <51928FE8.2050804@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <87y5bhn1iw.fsf@med.uni-goettingen.de>

Am 14.05.2013 15:17, schrieb Andreas Leha:

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> Hi all,
> 
> how can I make git ignore the time stamp(s) in a PDF.  Two PDFs that
> differ only in these time stamps should be considered identical.
> ...
> What I tried is a filter:
> ,----[ ~/.gitconfig ]
> | [filter "pdfresetdate"]
> |         clean = pdfresetdate
> `----
> 
> This 'works' as far as the committed pdf indeed has the date reset to my
> default value.
> 
> However, when I re-checkout the files, they are marked modified by git.

I'm using cleaned files every now and then, but not on Linux. I have never observed this behavior recently.

If you 'git add' the file, does it keep its modified state? Does 'git diff' tell a difference?

-- Hannes