Re: Merging branches with smudge filter

Leonardo [off-list ref] writes:

Hi, everybody. I'm new to git and I'd like to keep track of some codes
we have here in our company. They have some sensitive information I
would like to keep private. After some googling, I found some
solutions that encrypt/decrypt the files using filters as they're
committed/checked out. I've been using this approach and it suits my
needs. Now I need to merge two branches, but the process is failing
for two files in particular. First of all, here's my config file:

[filter "openssl"]
    clean = openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -a -nosalt -pass pass:password
    smudge = openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -a -nosalt -pass pass:password
    required

Git works on the "clean" representation of the data, i.e. the
representation of the blob object stored in the object database and
in the index, when manipulating the contents, e.g. diffing two
variants, patching (think "add -p"), merging, etc.

As you are making the "clean" version an encrypted opaque sequence
of bytes, it is expected that you wouldn't be able to run 3-way
merges.