Re: fast-import fails in read-only tree

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

If you're really going to do a lot of interactive back-and-forth access
of objects, though, I think you want to set up pipes to cat-file. It's a
little tedious to allocate fifos, but something like:

With bash's coproc it's a bit less tedious:

  mkfifo in out
  (exec git cat-file --batch <in >out) &
  exec 8>in
  exec 9<out
  echo $sha >&8
  read mode type size <&9

    coproc CAT_FILE git cat-file --batch
    echo $sha >&${CAT_FILE[1]}
    read mode type size <&${CAT_FILE[0]}

Andreas.

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