Re: [PATCH v4 07/12] run-command: add clean_on_exit_handler

> On 05 Aug 2016, at 23:19, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> wrote:
> 
> On 2016-08-05 15.08, Lars Schneider wrote:
> 
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>> Yeah it could do that. But then the filter cannot do things like
>> modifying the index after the fact... however, that might be considered
>> nasty by the Git community anyways... I am thinking about dropping
>> this patch in the next roll as it is not strictly necessary for my
>> current use case.
> (Thanks Peff for helping me out with the EOF explanation)
> 
> I would say that a filter is a filter, and should do nothing else than filtering
> one file,
> (or a stream).
> When you want to modify the index, a hook may be your friend.