[Please don't top-post on this list.] On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 03:15:38PM +0200, Florian Aspart wrote: > 2015-06-18 14:31 GMT+02:00 Michael J Gruber <g...@drmicha.warpmail.net>: > > Florian Aspart venit, vidit, dixit 16.06.2015 16:11: > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> I created a clean filter to apply on some files before commiting them. > >> The filter works correctly when I commit the file and is also applied > >> when I usethe iff command line tool. > >> However, when using difftool with meld, the filter is not applied and > >> the different versions of the files are compared without any > >> filtering. > >> > >> Is there a way to apply the clean/smudge filters when comparing the > >> working copy of a file to the HEAD version in a gui diff tool? > >> > >> I'm using git version 2.4.3 under Ubuntu. > >> > >> Best, > >> Florian > > > > Are you saying that "difftool" compares an uncleaned working tree file > > with a cleaned blob? That would be a bug in either difftool or the way > > we feed difftool. > > > yes in this case "difftool" compares an uncleaned working tree file > with a cleaned blob. I did not try the smudge filter to see if it > applied in difftool. > > I think the problem comes from the way difftool is feeded, since I > also had this problem when setting an external tool for the diff in > the gitconfig file. > > However, I'm not sure if this is a bug or it is designed to be so. > If the external tool changes a cleaned working tree file during the > diff, then by saving this file the result of the cleaning filter would > also be saved in the working tree.
How is your filter configured? Is it using a simple pattern (e.g. "*.c") or is it using a file path? git-difftool uses `git checkout-index --all --prefix=$dir/` and I wonder if the prefix means that the attribute specification does not match the temporary file that difftool produces, so no filter is applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
