git: re-checkout files after creating smudge filter

Question

Situation: I\'ve just cloned a git repo, and then I configure the smudge filter for the repo. There are .gitattributes files scattered around the repo that spec

Answer 1

You can remove the Git index and let Git rescan it to aware the changes. Then you can checkout all the files which have a smudge filter on them.

# remove Git index
rm .git/index

# rescan index
git reset HEAD -- .

# checkout all the files which have a smudge filter on them
git ls-files --modified | grep -v .gitattributes | awk '{print "git checkout HEAD -- \""$1"\""}' | bash

Note: Save your uncommitted changes before the re-checkout, otherwise, all your modifications on those smudge-filter-applied files will be overridden.