"Randall S. Becker" <rsbec...@nexbridge.com> writes: > On July 9, 2019 5:51 PM, Peff wrote: [...] >> No, textconv only applies when generating a diff to output, and will never >> impact what's stored in Git. >> >> It sounds like you might want a clean filter instead, to sanitize the file >> contents as they come into Git (and perhaps a matching smudge filter to >> convert back to the working-tree version if necessary). >> >> You're talking about "the diff engine" here, but note that git-add would >> never >> do a diff at all. It cares only about full sha1s (and optimizes out >> re-computing >> the sha1 on each invocation by using stat data). So outside of clean/smudge, >> there's nothing else going on. > > Thanks. I can script this instead. Will do an external diff then > --assume-unchanged when I detect an equivalence.
If you want to ignore changes, --assume-unchanged (i.e. lying to Git) is a wrong solution, as it can lead to data loss. It is meant as performance optimization. A better solution would be to use --skip-worktree, which though meant for sparse checkout can be used for ignoring changes. The only problem is that it can prevent some safe operations, like git-stash, because git thinks that it could lead to data loss. Though I am not sure if they are needed with clean/smudge filter. Best, -- Jakub Narębski
