Re: blameview and file contents

On 1/30/07, Shawn O. Pearce [off-list ref] wrote:

Aneesh Kumar [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

I guess blame view need to pull the file content from the repository
rather than opening it directly. If i have a working copy that is not
yet committed it gives wrong results. I tried some changes as below.
But i guess there should be a much easier way.

quoted

-open(my $fh, '<', $fn)
-  or die "unable to open $fn: $!";
+$fh = get_file_handle("HEAD", $fn);
 while(<$fh>) {
   chomp;
   $fileview->{data}->[$.] = ['HEAD', '?', "$fn:$.", $_];

Doesn't the following work just as well, and use a lot less code?

  open(my $fh, '|-', 'git', 'cat-file', 'blob', "HEAD:$fn")

?

See i said that there should be a simple way. Can we get this
documented in git-cat-file man page

-aneesh