Re: Integrating with hooks

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 15, 2007, 01:43 UTC
Message-ID: <fhg87q$k21$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071115011837.GD32746@penguin.codegnome.org>

Todd A. Jacobs wrote:

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> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:07:29AM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
>> Take a look at gitattributes(5), namely 'filter' attribute.
> 
> Thanks, I took a look at the man page you suggested. The "ident" feature
> almost does what I want, but doesn't seem to take any sort of format
> string.

The `ident` feature provides only sensible Id for a file (if you want to avoid potentially rewriting _all_ and not only changed files on checkout / switching branch / reset --hard). All Ids which have commit info, like commit id, commit date, author are not sensible in mentioned sense.

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> So, I thought I'd explore "filter," but can't really find any 
> examples of how to implement the smudge and clean commands, which seem
> to be what I'm really trying to do here.
> 
> Is there an example somewhere that you can point me to? The man page
> doesn't really show any examples of how to implement the filter
> attribute, so I'm a little unsure how to proceed.

Cannot help you there, but see examples of `diff` and `merge` attributes, it should I think be similar.

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