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diff --git a/doc/todo/smudge.mdwn b/doc/todo/smudge.mdwn index 855d9c7f8..f51f45a39 100644 --- a/doc/todo/smudge.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/smudge.mdwn @@ -17,10 +17,6 @@ do nothing, file content is already cached. SHA1 has a harder job. Would not want to re-sha1 the file every time, probably. So it'd need a cache of file stat info, mapped to known objects. -On the smudge side, I have not heard of a way to have the smudge filter -point to an existing file, it probably still needs to cat it out. Luckily -that is only done at checkout anyway. - ### dealing with partial content availability The smudge filter cannot be allowed to fail, that leaves the tree and @@ -34,6 +30,13 @@ it would if the file content was there. I've a demo implementation of this technique in the scripts below. +---- + +It may further be possible to use the %f with the smudge filter +(docs say it's supported), and instead of outputting the dummy content, +it could create a dangling symlink, which would be more like git-annex's +behavior now, and makes it easy to tell what content is not available +with `ls`. ### test files |