Christian Couder <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > "Even if git cat-file is a plumbing command, it has gained more and > more high level features like its `--batch-command` mode." What batch-command and batch do does not sound like "high level" at all. It is just "instead of invoking separate process to ask about each individual object, a single process answers the same low level requests". Independent of what this "The output from 'cat-file commit' is tweaked" feature, I wonder if we want a command that can be used as a filter. Just like "git name-rev --stdin" reads a stream of text, finds commit-looking references in it, and annotates them, the command (e.g. "git mailmap") would find ident-looking strings and replaces with the mapped results, or something. >> > At this time, this patch only adds a command line >> > option, but perhaps a `cat-file.mailmap` config option could be added as >> > well in the same way as for `git log`. >> >> As cat-file is a plumbing command that is used by scripts we should not >> add a config option for this as it would potentially break those scripts. Absolutely.
