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Subject: Re: difftool -d symlinks, under what conditions
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John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> writes:

> git-hash-object(1) implies that it will apply the clean filter and EOL
> conversion when it's given a path to a file in the working tree (as it
> is here).  Is that not the case?

Applying clean to smudged contents _ought to_ recover clean version,
but is that "ought to" something you would want to rely on?