On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 04:01:41PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > For that reason, and just for general flexibility, I think you are > mostly better off piping cat-file through an external filter program > (and then back to cat-file to get more data on each object). Yeah, agreed. The convention of printing objects listed on the command-line regardless of whether they would pass through the object filter is confusing to me, too. But using `rev-list --no-walk` to accomplish the same job for a filter as trivial as the type-level one feels overkill anyway, so I agree that just relying on `cat-file` to produce the list of objects, filtering it yourself, and then handing it back to `cat-file` is the easiest thing to do. Thanks, Taylor
