Re: [PATCH 6/3] fast-import: Allow cat requests at arbitrary points in stream

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Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 22:27, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Rather than planning in advance and saving up a bunch of objects
>> before a "commit" command, frontends might want to wait until the
>> middle of a commit and request objects then.
>
> I'm not sure I understand the justification of this patch. Is the
> purpose of this patch to save you from having to loop over everything
> you want to commit in the next commit and cat-ing that in advance?

Yes.  In particular, an importer that wants to apply deltas
to generate the content for

 M 100644 inline foo

commands might use this.

Probably not relevant for svn-fe in its current design, since it uses
blob commands and remembers the tree as it builds it up.
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