Re: Tracking OpenOffice files/other compressed files with Git

[Sergio Callegari <sergio.callegari@gmail.com>]

> You don't need to smudge the OOo file on checkout iff OOo can read a file
> that is "compressed" at level 0.
>
>   
I will check again then, since my first attempt at this was not very 
successful and I think I was getting dirty files even cleaning only.  
But it was a long time ago right after clean was introduced.

But in any case it would be preferable to smudge on checkout since 
uncompressed OO files can be quite huge.
Also to have uncompressed OO files in the worktree means that if you 
ever need to send one as an attachment to somebody you need to reopen 
and resave it before making the attachment, which is a bit uncomfortable!
> A file that you have just 'git add'ed must not show up as dirty even if it
> was processed by a "clean" filter. If it does, then this indicates a bug
> in git, and not that a corresponding "smudge" filter is missing or
> misbehaves. Yes, I have observed this with my own "clean" filter some time
> ago, but I have not yet tried hard enough to find a reproducible test case.
>
>   
But am I correct in saying that it will show dirty if you clean and then 
smudge in a non symmetric way?

Sergio