Re: renormalize histroy with smudge/clean-filter

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 7, 2025, 15:39 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqcyfthih8.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20250207104510.GE30202@raven.inka.de>

Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de> writes:

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> I completely fail to understand why git insists to operate on smudged files in
> many situations.
>
> IIUC, once clean/smudge are installed, all internal operations should be done
> on clean files. So why do I need this "git add --renormalize ." at all and (in
> the case of cherry-pick) there is not even any way to renormalize before
> picking.
>
> But maybe my understanding is too simplicistic here...

Nah, I suspect that the reason is much simpler.

Many tools in Git toolset (like cherry-pick) were written long before clean-smudge got popular, and they were written by those who did not need clean-smudge. Those capable of updating them still have not felt the need for clean-smudge for themselves. Motivate them and we may see responses ;-)