From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:35:08 GMT
Subject: Re: tracking perms/ownership
Message-ID: <7v4pin5rwz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vy7fz659s.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

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

> 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.