On 2009.04.24 19:25:31 -0400, Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 07:21:26PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > > > (And, actually, I think git has a few usability warts due to relying too > > much on command line arguments being objects; it would be quite nice if > > "git blame 1a2b3c:Makefile" worked despite this technically being > > incoherent.) > > Yeah, I think another is that "git show master:file" will not do CRLF or > other filters, and "git diff master:file other:file" will not respect > diff settings. I think all of those could be solved by path lookup > attaching a "here is a pathname I used to get to this object" string, > which can then be accessed as appropriate. > > It is not all that different conceptually than what "git rev-list > --objects" does. It's also something that hash-object already does in some way. To apply e.g. attributes to content that you supply via stdin. Björn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html