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Re: About git reporting missing newline for symlinks

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Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date
Oct 13, 2022, 02:17 UTC
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On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 09:42:12PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
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> On 2022-10-12 at 21:34:55, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Just a fun thought experiment, but I wonder what would happen if a
> > user chooses to add .clean and .smudge filter that adds and strips
> > a LF at the end ;-)
>
> I don't believe those are invoked on symlinks, since I don't recall us
> having to handle symlinks in Git LFS, which works using a smudge and
> clean filter.

That is right. It matches my memory, at least, though it has been a very long time since I've thought that hard about the clean / smudge code.

Thanks, Taylor

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Message 15 of 15 in “About git reporting missing newline for symlinks”
  1. Ignacio TarantoOct 12, 2022
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2022
  3. Ignacio TarantoOct 12, 2022
  4. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonOct 13, 2022
  5. Junio C HamanoOct 13, 2022
  6. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonOct 13, 2022
  7. Junio C HamanoOct 13, 2022
  8. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonOct 13, 2022
  9. Junio C HamanoOct 13, 2022
  10. Philip OakleyOct 13, 2022
  11. Erik Cervin EdinOct 13, 2022
  12. brian m. carlsonOct 12, 2022
  13. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2022
  14. brian m. carlsonOct 12, 2022
  15. Taylor BlauOct 13, 2022

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