On 2016-08-05 15.08, Lars Schneider wrote: [] > Yeah it could do that. But then the filter cannot do things like > modifying the index after the fact... however, that might be considered > nasty by the Git community anyways... I am thinking about dropping > this patch in the next roll as it is not strictly necessary for my > current use case. (Thanks Peff for helping me out with the EOF explanation) I would say that a filter is a filter, and should do nothing else than filtering one file, (or a stream). When you want to modify the index, a hook may be your friend. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html