Re: [PATCH 0/4] Pulling refs files

Dear diary, on Thu, May 19, 2005 at 05:19:01AM CEST, I got a letter
where Daniel Barkalow [off-list ref] told me that...

 2) fetching reference files by name, and making them available to the
    local program without writing them to disk at all.
 3) fetching other files by name and writing them to either the
    corresponding filename or a provided replacement.

I had thought that (2) could be done as a special case of (3), but I think
that it has to be separate, because (2) just returns the value, while
(3) can't just return the contents, but has to write it somewhere, since
it isn't constrained to be exactly 20 bytes.

Huh. How would (2) be useful and why can't you just still write it e.g.
to some user-supplied temporary file? I think that'd be still actually
much less trouble for the scripts to handle.

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