# Re: \[PATCH 4/7\] fast-import: Allow cat requests at arbitrary points in stream

- From: Jonathan Nieder \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:46 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7486122
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7486073/t.md

```text
David Barr wrote:

> Rather than planning in advance and saving up a bunch of objects
> before a "commit" command, frontends might want to wait until the
> middle of a commit and request objects then.

Not needed for svn-fe3, is it?

But I do like it.  (Obviously, I'm biased.)
```