From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:40:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [WIP/PATCH] Teach fast-import to print the id of each imported commit
Message-ID: <20100702154028.GB2287@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTintWyhcx9pURSqxs3e9BBkPx9KSPPYh4UOU7kv6@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 07:12, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

>> A ‘cat’ command (suggested by David) would also be useful, so the
>> caller can read trees and blobs before they are accessible through
>> the object db.  The svn importer would use this when applying
>> (svndiff0-format) deltas to import changes to regular files.
>
> How would the output be delimited? The same way fast-import expects
> its blob input?

Right.  I was imagining something like

 <blob hash> blob <size>
 ... content ...
 <blank line>

à la cat-file --batch.  Hopefully by the end of this weekend, if no
one else gets to it first.