Re: [PATCH 2/7] fast-import: Let importers retrieve the objects being written

Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 00:38, Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

At any rate, that is not needed for the current version of svn-fe,
is it?  So maybe it would make sense to strip down the patch to just
allow

       cat <blob>

Do we want some sort of type indicator to make it easier to extend? So
"cat blob <blob>"?

I'm not convinced it's needed.  cat-file does that to allow peeling
references:

	git cat-file tree v1.7.1
vs
	git cat-file tag v1.7.1

But the "cat" name might be too valuable namespace to reserve for only
this.  I have no strong preference either way.  Maybe the command
should be named "cat-blob".