From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:45:28 GMT
Subject: Re: git command to read
Message-ID: <18685.49368.557513.727997@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081021112521.GC17363@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King writes:

> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:21:09PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> 
> > Is there a command in git at the moment that will read commit IDs on
> > standard input and print the contents of each commit on standard
> > output (without waiting for EOF on stdin)?
> 
> How about:
> 
>   git cat-file --batch
> 
> ?
> 
> Unfortunately it just dumps the raw commit information instead of
> allowing the usual formatting, but perhaps that is sufficient (you asked
> for "contents").

Ah, thank you, that looks like just what I want. :)

Paul.