Jan Hudec wrote: > The problem point is not big files, but whether they can change the file mode > associated with the entry, since in this case the tree contains a file, but > index should contain a symlink. Looking at the documentation, there does not > seem to be a way to do it. > > It might be worth adding support for it now we have a use-case. I suppose that if I were using smudge filters, I'd probably not need to use symlinks at all. I'll think about it. It belatedly occured to me that I already had something else modifying the index in pre-commit, and smudge filters cannot handle its use case. That is, etckeeper (http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/etckeeper). The pre-commit script there stores some metadata about files that git usually doesn't track, by putting it in a dotfile, and stages that dotfile for commit. Which currently works fine, except for the minor problem that the user doesn't see the dotfile listed in the commit message. -- see shy jo
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