Re: is it kosher for pre-commit to change what's staged?

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Joey Hess [off-list ref] wrote:

That said, since git commit stages the whole large file into the index,
which is the kind of expensive operation git-annex exists to avoid,
it's still not very practical to intercept the commit like that. What
I ideally need is a hook that is run before git commit stages anything.

Then maybe you should look at git smudge&clean filters. They perform
conversation between the working tree and the index.  Though I am not
sure how well they work with big files.


Dmitry