Re: Tip of the day: archaeology

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

*1* Sometimes I wish we had "cvs co -p" equivalent.

	$ git cat-blob rev path

Perhaps?

Isn't "git-ls-tree rev path" good enough? Maybe you want to wrap it with

	#!/bin/sh
	git-ls-tree "$@" |
		while read mode type sha name
		do
			git-cat-file $type $sha
		done

or something? 

Exactly.  The point was that we do not ship a prepackaged script
like that.