On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 10:40 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 07:12, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> A ‘cat’ command (suggested by David) would also be useful, so the > >> caller can read trees and blobs before they are accessible through > >> the object db. The svn importer would use this when applying > >> (svndiff0-format) deltas to import changes to regular files. > > > > How would the output be delimited? The same way fast-import expects > > its blob input? > > Right. I was imagining something like > > <blob hash> blob <size> > ... content ... > <blank line> > > à la cat-file --batch. Hopefully by the end of this weekend, if no > one else gets to it first. It should be very simple to implement --batch-verify as well, which is essentially the same thing, just only printing the header and not the contents. How hard do you think it would be to implement a 'rev-parse' command? Perhaps you can see where this is going... :-) Sam -- 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