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@ -122,3 +122,28 @@ The best fix would be to improve git's smudge/clean interface:
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> If this was possible, it should speed up git checkout etc which use the
> smudge filter. --[[Joey]]
> > Tried that, it looks like when the long-running filter process
> > sends only capability=smudge, and not clean, git add does not
> > fall back to running filter.annex.clean. So unfortunately,
> > it's not that easy.
> >
> > To proceed down this path, git-annex would need to use
> > the long-running filter process for clean too. So `git add`
> > would end up piping the whole content of large files over to git-annex,
> > which would have to read and discard that data. This would
> > probably make git-annex twice as slow for large files, although
> > it would speed up git add of many small files. git-annex add
> > could be used to work around any speed impact.
> >
> > Or git could be extended
> > with a capability in the protocol that lets the clean filter read the
> > file content from disk, rather than having it piped into it. The
> > long-running filter process protocol does have a design that would let
> > it be extended that way.
> >
> > Or, I suppose git could be changed to run the clean filter when
> > the long-running process does not support capability=clean. Maybe
> > that would be more appealing to the git devs. Although since
> > it currently does not run it, git-annex would need to somehow
> > detect the old version of git and still work. --[[Joey]]