Re: [RFC] Long running Git clean/smudge filter

2016-07-12 Thread Lars Schneider
> On 10 Jul 2016, at 17:10, Joey Hess wrote: > > larsxschnei...@gmail.com wrote: >> (2) Joey's topic, which is the base for my patch, looks stalled for more than >> 2 weeks: >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/297994/focus=298006 >> I would be happy to

Re: [RFC] Long running Git clean/smudge filter

2016-07-10 Thread Joey Hess
larsxschnei...@gmail.com wrote: > (2) Joey's topic, which is the base for my patch, looks stalled for more than > 2 weeks: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/297994/focus=298006 > I would be happy to address Junio's comments and post a reroll. However, > I don't want to

[RFC] Long running Git clean/smudge filter

2016-07-10 Thread larsxschneider
From: Lars Schneider Git's clean/smudge mechanism invokes an external filter process for every single file that is affected by the filter. If you have *a lot* of files to filter then the startup time of the external filter process becomes a problem as discussed here: