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Joey Hess 2011-01-26 13:40:11 -04:00
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@ -17,10 +17,6 @@ do nothing, file content is already cached.
SHA1 has a harder job. Would not want to re-sha1 the file every time,
probably. So it'd need a cache of file stat info, mapped to known objects.
On the smudge side, I have not heard of a way to have the smudge filter
point to an existing file, it probably still needs to cat it out. Luckily
that is only done at checkout anyway.
### dealing with partial content availability
The smudge filter cannot be allowed to fail, that leaves the tree and
@ -34,6 +30,13 @@ it would if the file content was there.
I've a demo implementation of this technique in the scripts below.
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It may further be possible to use the %f with the smudge filter
(docs say it's supported), and instead of outputting the dummy content,
it could create a dangling symlink, which would be more like git-annex's
behavior now, and makes it easy to tell what content is not available
with `ls`.
### test files