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

From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Aug 5, 2016, 21:19 UTC
Message-ID: <b14c6063-cef8-56b4-eb57-7ab8577ecf0a@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <6C522B0F-F8F7-4B51-8BF0-67D9EDC97B3B@gmail.com>

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.

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