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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
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Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 11:03 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>  * --no-index --worktree <path>...
>>
>>    Update only the working tree files without touching the index
>>    (new feature that cannot be done with the current Git, although
>>    "cat-file -p >path" may be close enough at times), from the index
>
> I worry slightly that wording like this might paint ourselves into a
> similar corner of only correctly handling files as paths, rather than
> also handling directories as paths, and/or which presumes the
> no-overlay mode that I find problematic.  Maybe your "at times" just
> meant "when dealing with a path that is a file that existed in the
> given source", but I wonder if you are pushing more than that?

No, I meant "when you are not doing smudge filters (including eol
conversion)", aka "'cat-file -p' gives you raw blob contents, which
may not be what you want in your worktree."