Re: [PATCH] Extend cat-file to take multiple arguments or read input from stdin.

Han-Wen Nienhuys [off-list ref] writes:

I know, and that's what I was thinking. However, I was hoping someone else 
would pick up the hint :-)

I suppose fast-export would just be cat-file with a different name and  
slightly saner interface.  How about

  type <sha1> <newline>
  size <sha1> <newline>
  dump <type> <sha1> <newline>

I wondered why that looked so familiar ;-)

	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/62295/focus=62441

Adam Roben CC'ed.

2007/11/15, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref]:

quoted

I suppose fast-export would just be cat-file with a different name and
slightly saner interface.  How about

  type <sha1> <newline>
  size <sha1> <newline>
  dump <type> <sha1> <newline>

I wondered why that looked so familiar ;-)

        http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/62295/focus=62441

So,  where has that patch gone?

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