John Cai <johncai86@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This RFC patch proposes a new flag --stdin-cmd that works with > git-cat-file --batch. Similar to git-update-ref --stdin, it will accept > commands and arguments from stdin. > > The start of this idea was discussed in [1], where the original > motivation was to be able to control when the buffer was flushed to > stdout in --buffer mode. > > However, this can actually be much more useful in situations when > git-cat-file --batch is being used as a long lived backend query > process. At GitLab, we use a pair of cat-file processes. One for > iterating over object metadata with --batch-check, and the other to grab > object contents with --batch. However, if we had --stdin-cmd, we could > get rid of the second --batch-check process, and just have one progress > where we can flip between getting object info, and getting object contents. > This can lead to huge savings. Cool. I wish I had this back when I worked on a project which uses git. In case I ever continue, having 2-3 features in git itself would be useful: 1) ability to add new alternates / object directories on-the-fly 2) ability to deal with unlinked packs And maybe: 3) ability to remove alternates I've implemented 1 and 2 via libgit2; but not yet 3 (not really important, atm). Thanks.
