From 1815b027a22a88b322e0fae18a5a7f4a664882ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "sorsasampo@35b3d76c4c73ffc3f2c89e965c47a3f6a2721228" <sorsasampo@web>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:03:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH]

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+### Please describe the problem.
+
+`git annex upgrade` to v6 configures a filter using `git-annex smudge`. With it, `git diff` can't be run on files external to the repository, without getting a lot of stderr output like:
+
+    fatal: '../test.txt' is outside repository
+    error: external filter 'git-annex smudge --clean %f' failed 1
+
+This breaks vim-gitgutter signs, and possibly other tools as well.
+
+
+### What steps will reproduce the problem?
+
+[[!format sh """
+$ git init test
+$ cd test
+$ git annex init
+$ git annex upgrade
+$ git diff ../file1.txt ../file2.txt
+"""]]
+
+
+### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
+
+6.20180913-1~bpo9+1 on Debian Stretch + backports.