From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:40:55 GMT
Subject: Re: difftool -d symlinks, under what conditions
Message-ID: <7vppz32o60.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130313170821.GK2317@serenity.lan>

John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> writes:

> git-hash-object(1) implies that it will apply the clean filter and EOL
> conversion when it's given a path to a file in the working tree (as it
> is here).  Is that not the case?

Applying clean to smudged contents _ought to_ recover clean version,
but is that "ought to" something you would want to rely on?