[[!comment format=mdwn username="joey" subject="""re: Git 2.5 allows smudge filters to not read all of stdin""" date="2018-08-09T22:11:00Z" content=""" @torarnv thanks for pointing that out.. I finally got around to verifying that, and was able to speed up the smudge filter. Also this avoids the problem that git for some reason buffers the whole file content in memory when it sends it to the smudge filter, which is a pretty bad memory leak in git that no longer affects this. """]]