Junio C Hamano wrote: > "tracked by Git" is not all that interesting, compared to the fact > that your filter needs to give contents relevant to that path > because that is what the command line argument Git gives you with > '%f' means. It is not a random filename "tracked by Git". Among 47 > other files tracked by Git, the single one being given is the one > the code that drives the filter is WORKING ON, and I think that > needs to be written in the description, hence "the path that is > being worked on" was my suggestion.
Ah, "being worked on" does clarify it well, I think: + Note that "%f" is the name of the path that is being worked on. Depending + on the version that is being filtered, the corresponding file on disk may + not exist, or may have different contents. So, smudge and clean commands + should not try to access the file on disk, but only act as filters on the + content provided to them on standard input. -- see shy jo
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