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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: tracking perms/ownership
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> Yes, please do.  Even if you do not end up implementing the perms/owner 
>> tracking using the clean/smudge filter, it seems odd that the filter 
>> should not get the filename.
>
> Please don't.  Go back to the list discussion and recall why any
> filters that depends on nothing but contents are bad ("crlf good,
> keyword bad").  Don't feed paths to filters.

Gaaaaah.  I meant "a filter whose action depends on anything
other than contents".  Those other things include history (so
"commit ID" is out) and pathnames.