On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 02:14:50PM +0100, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > While it already is possible to filter objects by some criteria in > git-rev-list(1), it is not yet possible to filter out only a specific > type of objects. This makes some filters less useful. The `blob:limit` > filter for example filters blobs such that only those which are smaller > than the given limit are returned. But it is unfit to ask only for these > smallish blobs, given that git-rev-list(1) will continue to print tags, > commits and trees. > > Now that we have the infrastructure in place to also filter tags and > commits, we can improve this situation by implementing a new filter > which selects objects based on their type. Above query can thus > trivially be implemented with the following command: > > $ git rev-list --objects --filter=object:type=blob \ > --filter=blob:limit=200 > > Furthermore, this filter allows to optimize for certain other cases: if > for example only tags or commits have been selected, there is no need to > walk down trees. Makes sense, and the implementation looks reasonable to me. -Peff
