It's natural to expect %f to be an actual file on disk; help avoid that
mistake.
Signed-off-by: Joey Hess <jo...@joeyh.name>
---
This patch series was meant to contain 5 patches; here's the missing
one. This patch will apply cleanly on top of v2.9.0.
Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index e3b1de8..145dd10 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -374,6 +374,11 @@ substitution. For example:
smudge = git-p4-filter --smudge %f
------------------------
+Note that "%f" is the name of the path that is being worked on. Depending
+on the version that is being filtered, the corresponding file on disk may
+not exist, or may have different contents. So, smudge and clean commands
+should not try to access the file on disk, but only act as filters on the
+content provided to them on standard input.
Interaction between checkin/checkout attributes
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
--
2.8.1
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