How to permanently prevent specific part of a file from being committed in git?

Question

I have cloned a remote SVN repository with git-svn. I have modified a pom.xml file in this cloned repo in a way that the code compiles. This setup is exclusive for me. Thus

Answer 1

There might be a possiblity with filters. But this needs to be explored more.

Starting point: Implement the smudge / clean for this filter:

git config --global filter.versionUpdate.smudge 'sed "s/14.5.0<\/version>/14.5.FEATURE-15<\/version>/"'
git config --global filter.versionUpdate.clean 'sed "s/FEATURE-15<\/version>/14.5.0<\/version>/"'

In this way, the file is always the same when comparing, since the filter is applied.

Problem: It still needs investigation on how to find the filtered files back. This is not so evident in the working directory.