Re: tracking perms/ownership

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 25, 2007, 19:35 UTC
Message-ID: <7v4pin5rwz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vy7fz659s.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> Yes, please do.  Even if you do not end up implementing the perms/owner 
>> tracking using the clean/smudge filter, it seems odd that the filter 
>> should not get the filename.
>
> Please don't.  Go back to the list discussion and recall why any
> filters that depends on nothing but contents are bad ("crlf good,
> keyword bad").  Don't feed paths to filters.

Gaaaaah. I meant "a filter whose action depends on anything other than contents". Those other things include history (so "commit ID" is out) and pathnames.