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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>,  git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: buggy smudge/clean of empty files
Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 15:26:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqr00g2sf1.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250522221523.GA21347@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 22 May 2025 18:15:23 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> So I dunno. I'm hoping somebody more familiar with the index and/or
> clean/smudge conversions can show a better way.

My initial reaction was "well, do not do it then---an emptyness
smudges to and cleans to an emptyness and that is either by design,
or is a known limitation of the design of smudge/clean".  

If somebody can show a clean way to lift that assumption buried deep
inside the design, that would indeed be nice ;-)

Thanks.

      reply	other threads:[~2025-05-22 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-22 19:01 buggy smudge/clean of empty files Joey Hess
2025-05-22 22:15 ` Jeff King
2025-05-22 22:26   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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