From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 22:26:42 GMT
Subject: Re: buggy smudge/clean of empty files
Message-ID: <xmqqr00g2sf1.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20250522221523.GA21347@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> So I dunno. I'm hoping somebody more familiar with the index and/or
> clean/smudge conversions can show a better way.

My initial reaction was "well, do not do it then---an emptyness
smudges to and cleans to an emptyness and that is either by design,
or is a known limitation of the design of smudge/clean".  

If somebody can show a clean way to lift that assumption buried deep
inside the design, that would indeed be nice ;-)

Thanks.