Ed Avis <eda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com> writes: > >>"cat-file --batch" will give you the objects in the order you ask. > > Thanks, that makes it easy to deal with. In fact, I might prefer to use > git cat-file --batch-check and then use some other library to fetch the blob > contents. If all you need is a translation from extended SHA-1 object name like HEAD~243:Documentation/README to the raw 40-hex object name, "rev-parse" may turn out to be more suitable tool than that. It of course depends on your use case. -- 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