Linus Torvalds <torvalds <at> osdl.org> writes:
[...]
> But in the general case, the answer is no. Set up a gitweb thing, and look
> up the objects that way. Or just pull the repo, and look at it locally.
I ended up doing that (clone whole remote repo).
> Just out of interest, why would you ever want to just look at a single
> object?
Well...
I screwed up my local clone of a repo. git-fsck told me what objects I needed.
So I finally ended up downloading the whole repo again to extract 16 objects. ;)
The other possible use for remote git-cat-file:
It might be useful in shallow repos to selectively load objects "on demand".
(In fact, I screwed my repo by trying to make it shallow.)
Elrond
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