Re: git with custom diff for commits

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

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It will show an empty output for "git diff", but I doubt thit will 
change anything at commit time. Probably the "filter" thing on the same 
file (also "man gitattributes") can help though.

Ah, right.  I completely missed that you were talking about git-commit, 
not git-log on git commits.

Yes, setting up a "clean" filter that removes the timestamps is probably 
the reasonable thing to do here.

I wouldn't do filters for something like that.  Can you guarantee that
the output from corresopnding smudge filter will load cleanly back to
the mysql database?

The original poster said the date was an SQL comment, so, it should be
safe to strip it. That said, precommit hook is probably a good or
better solution. At least, if you're not sure you didn't make a
mistake writting it, you'll notice either a good commit or no commit
at all. With filters, you might well notice you corrupted the commit
too late :-(.

-- 
Matthieu