From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 22:06:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] convert: legitimately disable clean/smudge filter with an empty override
Message-ID: <xmqqvb6dl5oe.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <AB5433EB-2C86-4A71-9E9F-057AC3CC150A@gmail.com>

Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> writes:

> If the clean/smudge command of a Git filter driver (filter.<driver>.smudge and
> filter.<driver>.clean) is set to an empty string ("") and the filter driver is
> not required (filter.<driver>.required=false) then Git will run successfully.
> However, Git will print an error for every file that is affected by the filter.
>
> Teach Git to consider an empty clean/smudge filter as legitimately disabled
> and do not print an error message if the filter is not required.

That makes more sense to me.