On 04/30/2015 07:34 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> [...]
> But stepping back a bit.
>
> We have been talking about HEAD^{resolve}:fleem but how did we learn
> that there is a path "fleem" in the tree of HEAD in the first place?
> I would presume that the answer eventually boils down to "somebody
> fed HEAD to 'ls-tree -r'", and then that somebody is an idiot if it
> did not grab the mode bits to learn what kind of blob fleem is, or
> if it did not tell the guy that wants to drive "cat-file --batch".
I think a plausible use case for this feature is to read
`$tag^{resolve}:RelNotes`, in which case the reason we know it's there
is "because the maintainer told us it is there".
Michael
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