Re: [PATCH 2/4] add smudge-to-file and clean-from-file filter configuration

Michael J Gruber wrote:

I'm not sure this will save all feet. I foresee "why is smudge-to-file
not doing anything" reports...

It could display a warning message if smudge-to-file is set and smudge is
not.

In addition, it opens the way to doing completely different things in
smudge and smudge-to-file - which partly is intentional, of course.

They can be implemented very differently, but need to provide the same
file content. Otherwise git checkout and git diff would show different
content for the same file, for example. This is up to the implementor of
a filter driver to get right.

Do you make any promises that %p is a seekable file?

Yes, %p is a regular file and so is seekable, statable, etc.

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