Re: [PATCH v3 4/8] t1051: introduce a smudge filter test for extremely large files

> "Matt Cooper via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > From: Matt Cooper <vtbassmatt@gmail.com>
> >
> > The filter system allows for alterations to file contents when they're
> > added to the database or workdir. ("Smudge" when moving to the workdir;
> > "clean" when moving to the database.) This is used natively to handle CRLF
> > to LF conversions. It's also employed by Git-LFS to replace large files
> > from the workdir with small tracking files in the repo and vice versa.
>
> Not a huge deal, but make it a habit to spell "working tree" not "workdir",
> as someday you'd write end-user facing documentation in our tree ;-).
>
> > Git pulls the entire smudged file into memory.
>
> Giving "for what" would be helpful to readers.
>
>     Git reads the entire smudged file into memory to convert it into
>     a "clean" form to be used in-core.