Re: [RFC/PATCH] Add a new commit-raw command.

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Feb 24, 2009, 23:07 UTC
Message-ID: <20090224230701.GW22848@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090224221406.GA6299@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:28:34PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> 
> > This command receives as input a raw commit object, and outputs the
> > generated sha1. This is very useful when doing some serious repo
> > reconstructions.
> > 
> > For example: git cat-file -p 343ee25 | git write-raw
> > 343ee2589d1b94772f513cc699765622351acb19
> 
> How about:
> 
>   git cat-file -p 343ee25 | git hash-object -t commit --stdin

And if you are really writing a lot of new objects, use fast-import.

-- 
Shawn.