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Re: Enumerating all objects in the Git object store

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Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
Mar 26, 2010, 20:11 UTC
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<201003262111.48298.j.sixt@viscovery.net>
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On Freitag, 26. März 2010, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
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> On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> > Use 'git rev-list --objects --all' to find all objects connected to all
> > refs (use something else than --all if you want to). Do *not* look at the
> > path that the tree and blob objects have attached - it is not authorative
> > information.
>
> Really??

Yes, really. Consider the same content at two differen paths. Now what? rev-list will only ever list the object once.

-- Hannes
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  1. Paul RichardsMar 26, 2010
  2. Johannes SixtMar 26, 2010
  3. Jakub NarebskiMar 26, 2010
  4. Nicolas PitreMar 26, 2010
  5. Johannes SixtMar 26, 2010
  6. Nicolas PitreMar 26, 2010
  7. Paul RichardsMar 26, 2010
  8. Michael J GruberMar 27, 2010

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