Re: [PATCH 2/7] fast-import: Let importers retrieve the objects being written

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 13, 2010, 00:07 UTC
Message-ID: <20101013000741.GK15587@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=MWyK=_7jK7B_0+GD4fWJcyjk7n+zAP2eKKw2H@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 00:38, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

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>> At any rate, that is not needed for the current version of svn-fe,
>> is it?  So maybe it would make sense to strip down the patch to just
>> allow
>>
>>        cat <blob>
>
> Do we want some sort of type indicator to make it easier to extend? So
> "cat blob <blob>"?

I'm not convinced it's needed. cat-file does that to allow peeling references:

	git cat-file tree v1.7.1
vs
	git cat-file tag v1.7.1

But the "cat" name might be too valuable namespace to reserve for only this. I have no strong preference either way. Maybe the command should be named "cat-blob".