Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> If you're really going to do a lot of interactive back-and-forth access
> of objects, though, I think you want to set up pipes to cat-file. It's a
> little tedious to allocate fifos, but something like:
With bash's coproc it's a bit less tedious:
> mkfifo in out
> (exec git cat-file --batch <in >out) &
> exec 8>in
> exec 9<out
> echo $sha >&8
> read mode type size <&9
coproc CAT_FILE git cat-file --batch
echo $sha >&${CAT_FILE[1]}
read mode type size <&${CAT_FILE[0]}
Andreas.
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