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TKR
TKR

Reputation: 45

Custom git clean filter modifies file in commit but not working directory

I have a custom .gitattributes entry like so:

*.csproj text filter=csprojsort

The corresponding filter is set up like so in .git/config:

[filter "csprojsort"]
   clean = "path/to/repo/csprojsort.exe"

Upon commiting a .csproj file with changes, the filter executes as intended by sorting the file alphabetically and then proceeding to commit the changes. If I do a git show path/to/file.csproj, the changes show up.

However, the file does NOT change in my working directory, and git does not recognize that the current state is out of sync. Only when I checkout another branch and then checkout the original branch does the file update on disk.

Any clue what is behind this? Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 263

Answers (1)

larsks
larsks

Reputation: 312530

That sounds like the filter is working as intended. The documentation says a clean filter is "...used to convert the content of a worktree file to a blob upon checkin", which is exactly the behavior you're seeing. It doesn't modify files in your working directory.

A smudge filter does the opposite: when you check out a file, the smudge filter runs before the data is written to a file.

Upvotes: 1

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